Date: 1975
"But at a certain age, the age at which promotions and Chairs begin to occupy a man's thoughts, he may look back with wistful nostalgia to the day's when his wits ran fresh and clear, directed to a single, positive goal."
preview | full record— Lodge, David (b. 1935)
Date: 1975
"In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care, filling his mind with distilled knowledge, drop by drop, until, on the eve of the first paper (Old English Set Texts) it was almost brimming over."
preview | full record— Lodge, David (b. 1935)
Date: 1975
"Each morning for the next ten days he bore his precious vessel to the examination halls and poured a measured quantity of the contents on to the pages of ruled quarto. Day by day the level fell, until on the tenth day the vessel was empty, the cup was drained, the cupboard was bare"
preview | full record— Lodge, David (b. 1935)
Date: 1975
"In the years that followed he set about replenishing his mind, but it was never quite the same. The sense of purpose was lacking--there was no great Reckoning against which he could hoard his knowledge, so that it tended to leak away as fast as he acquired it."
preview | full record— Lodge, David (b. 1935)
Date: 1975
"His soul, like his stomach, was in turmoil."
preview | full record— Lodge, David (b. 1935)
Date: 1976
"They [Marsall McLuhan's ideas] are Turkish baths of the mind."
preview | full record— Bell, Daniel (1919-2011)
Date: 1978, 1979
"The discipline tying mind in that way to the meditative object is expressed by the simile of training an elephant, for example, a wild elephant is tied with many massive cords to a trunk or a post."
preview | full record— Wayman, Alex
Date: 1978, 1979
"The mind is like the untrained elephant. When it is bound with the cord of mindfulness to the firm post of the previously discussed meditative object, [even] if it is unwilling to remain there, it is gradually brought under control, goaded by the hook of awareness."
preview | full record— Wayman, Alex
Date: June 16, 1978
"The human head is bigger than the globe."
preview | full record— Grass, Günther (b. 1927)
Date: 1979
"The picture which holds traditional philosophy captive is that of the mind as a great mirror, containing various representations--some accurate, some not--and capable of being studied by pure, non-empirical methods."
preview | full record— Rorty, Richard (1931-2007)