We know to much to command ourselves very far.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.