Consciousness Quote by Julian Jaynes

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

— Alan Moore

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also…

— Karl Marx

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

— Karl Marx

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have…

— Steven Pinker

“The emergence of consciousness as an evolutionary event and the subsequent emergence of language have led to the idea of information. But we should…

— Edelman Gerald

Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.

— Bernie Siegel

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

“Language shapes consciousness, And the use of language to shape consciousness Is an important branch of magic.”

— Starhawk

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth…

— Stuart Sutherland

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50…

— Stuart J. Russell