Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
As primitive as digital can be, there is nothing automatic in the methods I use, it's all basically done by hand. I… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The 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
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not… — Janet Kauffman Copy Share Image
Joseph's vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is both rewarding and inspiring The preparation, research and introduction of new chapters to an ever increasing text provides… — Roy Taylor Copy Share Image
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The… — Louis Bernacchi Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
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