Jaynes's Quotes

We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man. — Julian Jaynes

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness. — Julian Jaynes

Lying was what kept him safe, alive, and relatively sane when he was little and — Jennifer Jaynes

Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do. — Sharon Jaynes

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes

Include the knower in the known. — Julian Jaynes

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets. — Julian Jaynes

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been. — Julian Jaynes

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved. — Julian Jaynes

Thinking, then, is not conscious. Rather, it is an automatic process following a struction and the materials on which the struction is to operate. — Julian Jaynes

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first. — Julian Jaynes

Your words become the mirror in which others see themselves. — Sharon Jaynes

The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption. — Julian Jaynes

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

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles. — Sharon Jaynes

We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious. — Julian Jaynes

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure. — Julian Jaynes

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space. — Julian Jaynes

It is by metaphor that language grows. — Julian Jaynes

Thank you so much ... um, what's your name?'

'Nashira Jaynes.'

'I'm Jared Dernell,' he said, extending his hand. — Deepika Kumaaraguru

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression. — Julian Jaynes

I'm not a rebel. I just like finding solutions by myself - Nashira Jaynes. — Deepika Kumaaraguru

Just because we're going to be in different worlds doesn't mean we've left each other - Julie Jaynes — Deepika Kumaaraguru

We know to much to command ourselves very far. — Julian Jaynes

The unlocatable location of things thought about — Julian Jaynes

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. — Julian Jaynes

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. — Julian Jaynes

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain. — Sharon Jaynes

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. — Julian Jaynes

Cases they arrived suddenly, without any effort on my part . . . they liked especially to make their appearance while — Julian Jaynes

The king dead is a living god. — Julian Jaynes

Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word. — Sharon Jaynes

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new. — Sharon Jaynes

One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about. — Julian Jaynes

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. — Julian Jaynes

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function. — Julian Jaynes