Explanation Quote by Jürgen Habermas

“It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.”

— James N. Powell

“Once self-awareness crosses the boundary that creates the dualistic world, returning to its source in pure consciousness, words vanish.”

— Notable Scientists and Philosophers

“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the…

— James Hollis

“Our consciousness on the physical plane is relatively crude. We view choice making in terms of language, but like time, language is a construct…

— Shepherd Hoodwin

Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and…

— Julian Burnside

“It is our discomforts which provoke, which create consciousness; their task accomplished, they weaken and disappear one after the other. Consciousness however remains and…

— Emil Cioran

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power…

— Stanley Fish

“Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes…

— Aldous Huxley

“The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us from direct,…

— Tony Vigorito

“Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.”

— Anthony Stevens

“In some evolving civilizations, for reasons which we don't entirely understand, the evolution of consciousness is attended by a disaster of some sort which…

— Walker Percy