Date: 1949
"The inner life is a stream of consciousness of such a sort that it would be absurd to suggest that the mind whose life is that stream might be unaware of what is passing down it."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: 1949
"True, the evidence adduced recently by Freud seems to show that there exist channels tributary to this stream, which run hidden from their owner."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: 1949
"Rather, to relapse perforce into simile, it is supposed that mental processes are phosphorescent, like tropical sea-water, which makes itself visible by the light which it itself emits."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: 1949
"Or, to use another simile, mental processes are 'overheard' by the mind whose processes they are, somewhat as a speaker overhears the words he is himself uttering."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: 1955, 1958
"It [the title of this book] is used out of context but expresses the way I felt about these poems when I wrote them---as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul."
preview | full record— Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. (b. 1919)
Date: 1955, 1958
"It will be dark out there / with the Salvation Army Band. / And the mind its own illumination."
preview | full record— Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. (b. 1919)
Date: 1968
"Like a clock whose hands are sweeping / Past the minutes of its face, / And the world is like an apple / Whirling silently in space, / Like the circles that you find / In the windmills of your mind!"
preview | full record— Bergman, Alan (b. 1925) and Marilyn Bergman [née Keith] (b.1929)
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: November 12, 1973
"Mysteries are the food of the mind, and all the fundamental mysteries are necessary to sanity."
preview | full record— Richards, I.A. (1893-1979)
Date: 1975, 1976
"The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra. In order not to lose sight of the monkey by some sudden movement, we must watch the monkey constantly and even to be one with it."
preview | full record— Thich Nhat Hanh (b. October 11, 1926)