Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

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.

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

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

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

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

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.