Date: 1937
"In other words, my friend argues rightly, something more than a gadget mind is needed to deal with the issues now before mankind."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"Yes, the gadget mind is useful in its place; it can do many things. But the spiritual mind, God-illumined, is the hope of the race."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1941, 1942
"I think that his [the poet's] function is to make his imagination theirs and that he fulfills himself only as he sees his imagination become the light in the minds of others."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: 1944; 2018
"My desk is the monument to my mind, and by the appearance of it, my mind must have intimate contact with garbage collectors."
preview | full record— O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)
Date: 1944; 2018
"It is pleasanter to be five years older and beautiful than status quo and under par, but I must force my loose mind into its overalls and get going."
preview | full record— O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)
Date: 1954
"The furniture of our minds consists of what we hear, read, observe, discuss and think each day."
preview | full record— Watson, Thomas J. (1874-1956)
Date: 1958
"I believe it was your colleague Hospers who proposed this useful figure: that whereas both thoughts and words have meaning, just as both the sun and moon send light to us, the meaning of the words is related to the meaning of the thoughts just as the light of the moon is related to that of the s...
preview | full record— Chisholm, Roderick (1916-1999)
Date: 1958
"Consciousness is like a bottomless lake in which ideas are suspended at different depths."
preview | full record— Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)
Date: 1960
"Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants."
preview | full record— Quine, W. V. O. (1908-2000)
Date: 1960
"Physical things generally, however remote, become known to us only through the effects which they help induce at our sensory surfaces."
preview | full record— Quine, W. V. O. (1908-2000)