Civilization Quote by Terence McKenna

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

— Linus Pauling

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the…

— Julian Jaynes

And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in…

— Terence McKenna

“Sapiens use language to create completely new realities.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

— Jimmy Buffett

We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt…

— Jean Gebser

Language turned apes like us into civil creatures.

— Greg Gutfeld

We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects…

— Ernest Klein

There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one…

— Noam Chomsky

“Humans are created out of time”

— Sunday Adelaja

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy…

— Terence McKenna

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration…

— William Irwin Thompson