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

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.

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

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

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

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

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.