Good Nose Quote by Gilbert Ryle

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

— Gilbert Ryle

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

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

— Gilbert Ryle

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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