Self delusion Quote by Gilbert Ryle Download Open image ““The vain man does not think he is vain.”” — Gilbert Ryle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Self delusion
“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.” — Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover Copy Share Image
“But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Who says I’m vain?” “The comparison: your friend isn’t. But I’m sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you’re vain you pay attention… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.” — Sarah Addison Allen 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 a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point,… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
