Date: 1968
"This is, I think, perfectly correct. The little man [in one's head], as we might say, has in his library pamphlets entitled 'Tying One's Shoes', 'Speaking Latin', and 'Typing 'Afghanistan"', but no pamphlet entitled 'Being Intelligent' or 'Speaking Latin Fluently' or 'Typing "Afghanistan" with P...
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)
Date: February 20, 2000
"I sometimes fancy that various archetypal situations circled tirelessly in Hitchcock's mind, like whales in a tank at the zoo."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: 2001
"But loss is a current: the coolness of one side of a wet finger held up, the faint hiss in your ears at midnight, water sliding over the dam at the back of your mind, memory unremembering itself."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time, and this is true from hour to hour as well as from era to era."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: Summer, 2004
"Because of the way we live, the basement of the American mind fills up with the sexual use of other people."
preview | full record— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)
Date: May 10, 2009
"Rather than storehouses of in-depth information, the web is turning our brains into indexes."
preview | full record— Suderman, Peter
Date: August 6, 2009
"But they [lies] do not prevent us from seeking the truth, from looking outside our mental prisons and trying to uncover the true nature of the world that surrounds us."
preview | full record— Morris, Errol (b. 1948)
Date: 2009
"As far as I can tell, Quine’s philosophical and political thinking were conducted in two different and hermetically sealed off compartments of his mind."
preview | full record— Feser, Edward (b. 1968)
Date: June 6, 2010
"A portion of the brain acts as a control tower, helping a person focus and set priorities."
preview | full record— Richtel, Matt
Date: 2010
"The Professor was my very own bespoke monstre sacrée for so long--so long the resident she-Minotaur in my private psychic labyrinth--that I developed, fairly early in the game, what might be called a Professorial shtick: a narrative, often comic, in which the more Grand Guignol asp...
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)