Gilbert Ryle

Quotes

• “The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear and jolt one another’s bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another’s minds and inoperative upon them.”

• “A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.”

• “There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.”

• “To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”

Books by Gilbert Ryle in order

Books by Gilbert Ryle in the order they were published, from Philosophical Arguments (1945) to Contemporary Aspects of Philosophy (1976).

1. 1Philosophical ArgumentsPhilosophical Arguments1945
2. 2The Concept of MindThe Concept of Mind1949
3. 3The Holy BibleThe Holy Bible1949
4. 4DilemmasDilemmas1954
5. 5A Puzzling Element in the Notion of ThinkingA Puzzling Element in the Notion of Thinking1958
6. 6Letters and Syllables in PlatoLetters and Syllables in Plato1960
7. 7A Rational AnimalA Rational Animal1962
8. 8Plato ProgressPlato Progress1966
9. 9Plato's ProgressPlato's Progress1966
10. 10Locke on the Human UnderstandingLocke on the Human Understanding1968
11. 11The Thinking of ThoughtsThe Thinking of Thoughts1968
12. 12Collected PapersCollected Papers1971
13. 13Contemporary Aspects of PhilosophyContemporary Aspects of Philosophy1976
14. 14Aspects of MindAspects of Mind
15. 15On ThinkingOn Thinking
16. 16Plato's Progress: 1966 (Key Texts Ser. : Classic Studies in Plato's Progress: 1966 (Key Texts Ser. : Classic Studies in the History of Ideas))