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> [“A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/a-person-who-has-a-good-nose-for-arguments-or-jokes-may-have-a-bad/)

[Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/)

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## More by Gilbert Ryle

> [Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/absolute-solitude-is-on-this-showing-the-ineluctable-destiny-of-the/)

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> [Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/man-need-not-be-degraded-to-a-machine-by-being-denied-to-be-a-ghost/)

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> [In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/in-searching-for-the-self-one-cannot-simultaneously-be-the-hunter-and/)

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> [A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/a-myth-is-of-course-not-a-fairy-story-it-is-the-presentation-of-facts/)

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> [The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/the-dogma-of-the-ghost-in-the-machine-maintains-that-there-exist-both/)

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> [Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/dreamers-of-dreams-may-be-pathfinders-but-they-may-be-mere-vagrants/)

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> [“Minds are not bits of clockwork, they are just bits of not-clockwork. As thus represented, minds are not merely ghosts harnessed to machines, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/minds-are-not-bits-of-clockwork-they-are-just-bits-of-not-clockwork/)

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> [Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/only-through-the-medium-of-the-public-physical-world-can-the-mind-of/)

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> [When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/when-two-terms-belong-to-the-same-category-it-is-proper-to-construct/)

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> [So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/so-too-plato-was-in-my-view-a-very-unreliable-platonist-he-was-too/)

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> [To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/to-see-is-one-thing-to-picture-or-visualise-is-another-a-person-can/)

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> [Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/contemporary-philosophers-have-exercised-themselves-with-the-problem/)

[Gilbert Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-ryle/)

> [“A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/a-person-who-has-a-good-nose-for-arguments-or-jokes-may-have-a-bad/)

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> [To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/to-explode-a-myth-is-accordingly-not-to-deny-the-facts-but-to-re/)

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> [When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-ryle/when-the-epistemologists-concept-of-consciousness-first-became/)

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