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)
Date: December 18, 1979
"The mind is like a parachute. It must be opened in order to work."
preview | full record— Endicott, William
Date: September, 1979
"Indeed, some philosophers have thought of intentional mental events as being inner, physical sentence (or symbol) tokens--a sort of brain writing."
preview | full record— Burge, Tyler (b. 1946)
Date: 1979
" But they can be sent along the usual channels […] until at some critical point, a "mental faucet" is closed, preventing them from actually being carried out."
preview | full record— Hofstadter, Douglas (b. 1945)
Date: 1979
"There's a party in my mind...And it never stops / There's a party up there all the time."
preview | full record— Byrne, David (b. 1952) and Jerry Harrison (b. 1949) [Talking Heads]
Date: 1980
"The back of the mind is a small hotel / And when the residents go on picnics / Or take buckets and spades down to the sea / The betrayals begin."
preview | full record— Longley, Michael (b. 1939)