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Julian Jaynes Quotes

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first Picture Quote #1

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist Picture Quote #1

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets Picture Quote #1

The king dead is a living god Picture Quote #1

We know to much to command ourselves very far Picture Quote #1

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space Picture Quote #1

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Every God is a jealous God after the breakdown of the bicameral mind Picture Quote #1

It is by metaphor that language grows Picture Quote #1

One does one’s thinking before one knows what one is to think about Picture Quote #1

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first Picture Quote #1

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind Picture Quote #1

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still Picture Quote #1

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Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe Picture Quote #1

Consciousness is a much smaller part of mental life than we are conscious of, since we cannot be conscious of what we aren’t conscious of Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods Picture Quote #1

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all Picture Quote #1

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time Picture Quote #1

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Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use Picture Quote #1

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure Picture Quote #1

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually Picture Quote #1

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past Picture Quote #1

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Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved Picture Quote #1

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of Picture Quote #1

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Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first (Julian Jaynes Quotes) No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets (Julian Jaynes Quotes) The king dead is a living god (Julian Jaynes Quotes) We know to much to command ourselves very far (Julian Jaynes Quotes) The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Every God is a jealous God after the breakdown of the bicameral mind (Julian Jaynes Quotes) It is by metaphor that language grows (Julian Jaynes Quotes) One does one’s thinking before one knows what one is to think about (Julian Jaynes Quotes) We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first (Julian Jaynes Quotes) I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind (Julian Jaynes Quotes) The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Consciousness is a much smaller part of mental life than we are conscious of, since we cannot be conscious of what we aren’t conscious of (Julian Jaynes Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure (Julian Jaynes Quotes) The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else (Julian Jaynes Quotes) 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 Quotes) History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved (Julian Jaynes Quotes) Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of (Julian Jaynes Quotes)