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

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

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 illumina….

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take..

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are ….

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new..

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes;….

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word..

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine..

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them..

When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bough….

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. To explode a….

Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machi….

When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant no….

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 plac….

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described ho….

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines..

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. ….

It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no in….

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record..

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine..