Julian Jaynes

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

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

One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.