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

Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

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

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

Include the knower in the known.