Julian Jaynes Famous Quotes



Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.


Julian Jaynes Quotations






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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
Thomas Huxley

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde

"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."
Stephen Vincent Benet

"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum."
J W Schopf

"Man has responsibility, not power."
Tuscarora Proverb

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.
Muammar Qaddafi

"I have everything, yet have nothing and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."
Terence

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)"
Socrates

He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles De Gaulle