Gilbert Ryle Quotes

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

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.

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. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

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