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

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

We invent mind-space inside our own heads as well as the heads of others ... we assume these 'spaces' without question. They are a part of what it is to be conscious. Moreover, things that in the physical-behavioural world that do not have a spatial quality are made to have such in consciousness. Otherwise we cannot be conscious of them.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

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

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.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.