Gilbert Ryle

“Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.”

“A person's thinking is not a process going on in a parallel stream to his overt acts, but it is his overt acts conducted in a certain way.”

“The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine... is entirely false, and false not in detail but in principle.”

“To talk of a person's mind is not to talk of a repository which is inside him.”

“Category-mistakes are the source of the double-life theory.”

“Thinking is not an interior monologue, because thinking is not a species of saying.”

“A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.”

“Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.”

“In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.”

“Philosophical arguments are not inductions.”

“The vain man does not think he is vain. The notoriously vain man is the man who so values what is not his own that he eagerly apes it.”

“Minds are not bits of clockwork, they are just bits of not-clockwork.”