Deny Quote by Gilbert Ryle Download Open image “To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.” — Gilbert Ryle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deny Facts Inspirational Myth Storytelling
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
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. — Rick Santelli 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 are themselves just spectral machines. . . . Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share
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
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A little girl with your hair and eyes would've been the delight of my life. But it is you that I want primarily, not mythical children. I can survive the loss of something I've never had.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share
Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet… — Nam June Paik Copy Share Image
Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it… — Shawn Phillips Copy Share Image
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
