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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
When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
— Markus Zusak
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
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
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
— W. Somerset Maugham
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
— Peg Bracken
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
It is by metaphor that language grows.
— Julian Jaynes
Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.
— Julian Jaynes
We know to much to command ourselves very far.
— Julian Jaynes
The unlocatable location of things thought about
— Julian Jaynes
Tell her the Town told you to come read old dreams.
— Haruki Murakami
We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious.
— Julian Jaynes
The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.
— Julian 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
