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

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

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

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.