Animal Quote by Steven Pinker

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

— Bernie Siegel

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

— Karl Marx

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

For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness…

— Julian Jaynes

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

— Philippe Sollers

Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that…

— Rodolfo Llinas

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

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 is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

— Katherine Mansfield

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 is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna