"Of Hemispheres, which are infinite; and which are divided by an infinite number of Lines, so that every Man always has one of these Lines between his Feet."
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
“The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.”
Book I, Chapter 5, p. 103-104
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
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Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 74
“Silence is the only language god speaks.”
Source: Dime-Store Alchemy
reportedly during a 1974 speech to the United Nations, as reported by Loonwatch on 25 March 2017 http://www.loonwatch.com/2017/03/25/the-1974-houari-boumedienne-u-n-speech-myth/
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"Come Back, Dizzy" (p.187)
So This Is Depravity (1980)
“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”
Harvard Law School Forum (1966)