Date: 1969-70
"In this stock exchange within our minds 'modern' has been falling, 'bourgeois' has been rising: a small trend, but probably not without some significance."
preview | full record— Lukacs, John (b. 1924)
Date: 1970
"I should, rather, speak of a labyrinth. I am not concerned here with what is installed in the chamber at its enigmatic centre, ego or fate, but all the more with the many entrances leading into the interior."
preview | full record— Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
Date: 1971, 1978
"Without the breath of life the human body is a corpse; without thinking the human mind is dead."
preview | full record— Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)
Date: 1971, 1979
"It does not matter whether Le Penseur actually draws his diagrams on paper, or visualizes them as so drawn; and it does not matter whether in his quasi-posing his on appro Socratic questions to himself he speaks these aloud, mutters them under his breath, or only As-If mutters them on his mind's...
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: 1971, 1979
"Thinking is trying to better one's instructions; it is trying out promissory tracks which will exist, if they ever do exist, only after one has stumbled exploringly over ground where they are not."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: April 15, 1971
"You've got a geranium in your cranium."
preview | full record— Lederer, Esther [Ann Landers] (1918-2002)
Date: 1972
"Proof that a Justice's mind at the time he joined the Court was a complete tabula rasa in the area of constitutional adjudication would be evidence of lack of qualification, not lack of bias."
preview | full record— Rehnquist, William (1924-2005)
Date: November 12, 1973
"Mysteries are the food of the mind, and all the fundamental mysteries are necessary to sanity."
preview | full record— Richards, I.A. (1893-1979)
Date: 1975, 1976
"The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra. In order not to lose sight of the monkey by some sudden movement, we must watch the monkey constantly and even to be one with it."
preview | full record— Thich Nhat Hanh (b. October 11, 1926)
Date: 1975, 1976
"Mind contemplating mind is like an object and its shadow--the object cannot shake the shadow off. The two are one."
preview | full record— Thich Nhat Hanh (b. October 11, 1926)