Ryle, Gilbert

"The notion of private sensations is philosophically troublesome."

"Emotions are not internal episodes but dispositions to behave."

"Categories must match the logical structure of what they describe."

"Learning is not the passive reception of information."

"Skill emerges from practice combined with intelligence, not mechanical drilling."

"A categorical mistake occurs when ideas from one logical type are applied to another."

"The meaning of a word is not its mental image but its use in language."

"Motives are not hidden causes but reasons that can be articulated."

"Solipsism is not a coherent philosophical position but a logical confusion."

"Humor often arises from the collision of different logical categories."

"To say someone is intelligent is to ascribe dispositions, not to describe interior states."

"The relation between mind and body is not spatial but conceptual."

"Understanding requires grasping the rules that govern behavior, not mere observation."

"Consciousness is not a separate realm but an aspect of certain human activities."

"Descartes' error was assuming that thinking requires a special non-physical substance."

"Logic is about the relationships between concepts, not about external objects."

"Introspection is a skill that can be performed poorly or well."

"The voluntary action is distinguished not by inner experiences but by its rational control."

"Words do not picture reality but function in particular ways within language games."

"Self-knowledge is often less reliable than knowledge of others."

"The presumption that there is a unified 'self' is itself a philosophical construct."

"Thinking is an activity governed by rules, not a mechanical process."

"Our concepts must reflect the actual complexity of the phenomena they describe."

"Dispositions are real even when they are not currently manifested."

"The imagination is not a storehouse of mental images but a capacity to entertain possibilities."

"True knowledge involves understanding the interconnections between ideas."

"Responsibility presupposes the capacity to have acted otherwise."

"An action is not voluntary merely because it results from a volition; that notion is circular."

"The concept of achievement requires contrast with mere happening."

"Shame and embarrassment reveal something about how we understand ourselves socially."