Date: 1971
"Everything spun around him; then his mind blanked, like a TV suddenly switched off."
preview | full record— Jerzy N. Kosinski (1933-1991)
Date: 1971, 1978
"Without the breath of life the human body is a corpse; without thinking the human mind is dead."
preview | full record— Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)
Date: 1971, 1979
"It does not matter whether Le Penseur actually draws his diagrams on paper, or visualizes them as so drawn; and it does not matter whether in his quasi-posing his on appro Socratic questions to himself he speaks these aloud, mutters them under his breath, or only As-If mutters them on his mind's...
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: 1971, 1979
"Thinking is trying to better one's instructions; it is trying out promissory tracks which will exist, if they ever do exist, only after one has stumbled exploringly over ground where they are not."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: April 15, 1971
"You've got a geranium in your cranium."
preview | full record— Lederer, Esther [Ann Landers] (1918-2002)
Date: 1972
"Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, / Blowing through the jasmine in my mind."
preview | full record— Seals, Jim (b. 1941) and Dash Crofts (b. 1940)
Date: 1972
"Proof that a Justice's mind at the time he joined the Court was a complete tabula rasa in the area of constitutional adjudication would be evidence of lack of qualification, not lack of bias."
preview | full record— Rehnquist, William (1924-2005)
Date: 1972
"My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare; / I had to cram so many things to store everything in there."
preview | full record— Bowie, David [David Robert Jones] (1947-2016)
Date: 1972
"Is this passing madness / standing neck deep / in mudflats / tidetables / pasted / to the brain?"
preview | full record— Plumb, David
Date: 1972
"as the Whale dives / snapping our mind / like a lifeboat ?"
preview | full record— Plumb, David