Julian Jaynes Quotes
- Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled…
- One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.
- 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.
- No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.
- Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
- 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…
- 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…
- Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.
- Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.