Date: 1937
"They are gadget-minded. If they see a thing that needs to be done, they rig up a device, mechanical or mental, and make the thing do itself with no further bother."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"My hat is off to the gadget mind."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"But, my friend goes on to say, there are some fields in which the gadget mind will not work; and here he gets under our skin a bit."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
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: w. 1943, 1944
"The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only be reading old books."
preview | full record— Lewis, C. S. (1898-1963)
Date: November 22, 1990
"The nervous system adapts, is tailored, evolves, so that experience, will, sensibility, moral sense, and all that one would call personality or soul becomes engraved in the nervous system."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: November 22, 1990
"I do not feel alive, except insofar as a stream of feeling -- perceiving, imagining, remembering, reflecting, revising, recategorizing runs through me."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: November 22, 1990
"One is not an immaterial soul, floating around in a machine."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: 2007
"One's collection comes to symbolize the contents of one's mind."
preview | full record— Updike, John (1932-2009)