Quote by Gilbert Ryle Download Open image ““A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.”” — Gilbert Ryle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“you've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke.” — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.” — Ashok Kallarakkal Copy Share Image
“He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Cause there's always someone, somewhere With a big nose, who knows And trips you up and laugh when you fall” — Morrissey Copy Share Image
“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in this world... those who pick their nose... and liars. [Joshua, age 9]” — Kim Meeder Copy Share Image
“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what they're talking about.” — Miguel De Unamuno Copy Share Image
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet. — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted. — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers:… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“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… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine,… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
