Language Quote by Julian Jaynes

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

— Julian Jaynes

“The unlocatable location of things thought about”

— Julian Jaynes

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

— Julian Jaynes

We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.

— Julian Jaynes

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

— Julian Jaynes

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

— Julian Jaynes

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things.…

— Julian Jaynes

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

— Julian Jaynes

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

— 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

“Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to…

— Julian Jaynes

“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable…

— Julian Jaynes