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 mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

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

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.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

Include the knower in the known.

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.