"Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets."

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Source : Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Julian Jaynes

#Mind Quotes #Speech Quotes #Breaking Down Quotes

“Keep on being yourself.”
“The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.”
“You should find him because he loves you.”
“I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.”
“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”
“The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.”
“Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.”

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