There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Long before the first primitive dot matrix printers started cranking out phenomenally ugly text with a resolution marginally better than braille, it's… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was… — Bob Fosse Copy Share Image
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
![“Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.” quote by Robert Barron](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/86d/robert-barron-13186_allies_again-i-hear-almost-everyday-from-atheis_35728.jpg)
![“It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8eb/albert-einstein-33_chains_it-is-quite-clear-to-me-that-the-religio_1526818.jpg)
