Thkur

“To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do.”
― Bruce Lee

“The lexicon of language, then, is a finite set of terms that by metaphor is able to stretch out over an infinite set of circumstances, even to creating new circumstances thereby.”
― Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“And as you read, you are not conscious of the letters or even of the words or even of the syntax or the sentences and punctuation, but only of their meaning. As you listen to an address, phonemes disappear into words and words into sentences and sentences disappear into what they are trying to say, into meaning. To be conscious of the elements of speech is to destroy the intention of the speech.”
― Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death