Include the knower in the known.

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.

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

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.

Everybody lives for something better to come.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

I am never going to give music up.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.