Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.

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.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

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

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

Include the knower in the known.