The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

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

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.