No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

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

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.