Julian Jaynes Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• It is by metaphor that language grows.

  Julian Jaynes

  Language, Metaphor, Grows

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.

  Julian Jaynes

  Serious, Language, Consciousness

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

  Julian Jaynes

  Men, Order, Hemisphere

  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book I, Chapter 5, pp. 103-104), 1976.

• The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

  Julian Jaynes

  Lying, Civilization, Mind

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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