Bicameral Quotes

#1. This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

Julian Jaynes

#2. If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.

Neil Kinnock

#3. I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.

Martin Schulz

#4. If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

Julian Jaynes

#5. The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

Julian Jaynes

#6. I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Julian Jaynes

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

Julian Jaynes

#8. The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

Julian Jaynes

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

Julian Jaynes

#10. The heart was a bicameral thing, both stoical and skittish. Who was to say that it mightn't endure the years of separation and the abrupt reversals of fate, only to be repulsed by a misaligned vase, by a lipsticked tooth, by a hundredth of an ounce of ash?

Chris Cleave

#11. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

Fred Reed

#12. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

#13. As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

John Frusciante

#14. I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

Alfred Stieglitz

#15. Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.

Lisa Caputo

#16. But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Sylvia Plath

#17. Ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways.

James Davison Hunter

#18. When i'm reading the bible its feels like im the one who write it.

Iloveyouliketheocean

#19. His thoughts," Helio said, "are as clear as plastic to me, and mine likewise to him. We are both prisoners, Mister, in a hostile land." At that Arnie laughed loud and long. "Truth always amuses the ignorant," Helio said.

Philip K. Dick