We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.