The Master and His Emissary Quotes by Iain McGilchrist

“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the world... See more

“Emotion is inseparable from the body in which it is felt, and emotion is also the basis for our engagement with the world.”

“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”

“The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find.”