Myth Quote by Gilbert Ryle Download Open image “Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.” — Gilbert Ryle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Myth Stills Storytelling Theoretical
“Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and is willing… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and held for… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder 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
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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