Kishore Kumar

“the truly unique feature of our language is not its ability to transmit
information about men and lions. Rather, it’s the ability to transmit information
about things that do not exist at all. As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk
about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I was coming, so that i could tell you all this, as if time had stopped for me, as if a certain sensation, a certain feeling were going to remain with me forever from this time forward, as if a single minute would continue for a whole eternity, and all life would come to halt for me …”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And so it is that when we are unhappy we more strongly feel the unhappiness of others; feeling is not shattered but becomes concentrated...”
― Dostoevskiy, Белые ночи. White Nights. Belye nochi Dostoevsky

“The truly unique feature of our language is not its ability to transmit information about men and lions. Rather, it’s the ability to transmit information about things that do not exist at all. As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled. Legends, myths, gods and religions appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution. Many animals and human species could previously say, ‘Careful! A lion!’ Thanks to the Cognitive Revolution, Homo sapiens acquired the ability to say, ‘The lion is the guardian spirit of our tribe.’ This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind