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 …

- Gilbert Ryle

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

- Gilbert Ryle

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

- Gilbert Ryle

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

- Gilbert Ryle

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…

- Gilbert Ryle

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

- Gilbert Ryle

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

- Gilbert Ryle

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

- Gilbert Ryle

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

- Gilbert Ryle