Date: 1902
"Suddenly, in the midst of some train of thought, rises the sought-for line, like a ghost out of a gulf."
preview | full record— Spiller, Gustav (1864-1940)
Date: 1902
"If it were otherwise, no one could even set down on paper a closely reasoned argument, for the attention would be skipping like a stone hurrying down a sharp incline, or it would be moving hither and thither like a helpless shuttlecock at the mercy of eager players."
preview | full record— Spiller, Gustav (1864-1940)
Date: November 22, 1990
"One is not an immaterial soul, floating around in a machine."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: August 5, 2009
"That reminds me of a wonderful quote from a professional cartoonist who also teaches a university level course on comedy, who said he thought of 'humour as a necessary counterweight to the hegemony of reason.'"
preview | full record— Bhalla, Jag
Date: June 1, 2010
"Anyone who's closely read Mr. Hitchens's work -- including his best-selling manifesto 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' (2007) -- or seen him do battle on cable news programs, knows that he has a mind like a Swiss Army knife, ready to carve up or unbolt an opponent's arguments ...
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: June 1, 2010
"His mental Swiss Army knife also contains, happily, a corkscrew."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: March 10, 2011
"Richards’s sharpness is surprising coming from a guy whose mind, everyone had to assume, was by now a salvage heap."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: October 7, 2011
"In the wayward note, the bumps and curves of the author's mind seem to be laid plain on the paper."
preview | full record— Horowitz, Alexandra
Date: March 11, 2011
"The huge submerged bulk of the mental iceberg, with its stores of memory and acquired skills that have become automatic, like language, driving and etiquette, supplies people with the raw materials on which they can exercise their reason and decide what to think and what to do."
preview | full record— Nagel, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: March 9, 2012
"If we acquire a bad habit this way it is very hard to change, because its grooves are so well worn in our minds."
preview | full record— Wilson, Timothy D.