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

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.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

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

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.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

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

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

The king dead is a living god.

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

Masters today, were Starters Yesterday, so begin now.

Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left.

Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

The thing that sucks is that there’s so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

Not everything that nearly kills you makes you stronger. Sometimes it just makes you hate yourself for being so easily wounded yet unable to die.

Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.