Hemisphere Quote by Julian Jaynes

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

— Louis Aragon

“In Western languages, reading and writing involve turning from left to right, and therefore exercise the brain’s left hemisphere. Written language, invented by the…

— Daniel H. Pink

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

— Gene Wolfe

The language of God is Mystery.

— Kedar Joshi

“They were speaking the language of Heaven”

— Jamie McGuire

“Language enables the left hemisphere to represent the world ‘off-line’, a conceptual version, distinct from the world of experience, and shielded from the immediate…

— Iain McGilchrist

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

— Walter Lang

But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the…

— Thomas Hobbes

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

— Dejan Stojanovic