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

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

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.

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

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

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.