In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As far as visual artists, I find inspiration in Henri Rousseau, who painted amazing, dream-like junglescapes without ever leaving France, and who… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
It's not that big a mystery about types. It's not even that big a mystery why so many people are picking up… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit… — Bapsi Sidhwa Copy Share Image
Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero;… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
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