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.

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

One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.

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

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

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.