"The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all."

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Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Julian Jaynes

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“Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.”
“I went to a job and sat down as a proper apprentice, learning how to make jewelry. It involved a lot of remodeling and repairing. It was a bad time in England in those days and people didn't have much money - they would repair a ring rather than buy a new one. They would thicken up the gold. I learned all the ways to make something look new again.”

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“What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.”

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“If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.”
“Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.”
“Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”
“What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?”
“Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.”

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