--- title: "7 Pre History Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Pre History quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Pre History sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/donald-johanson-16932_animals_but-what-really-excited-me-was-the-idea_99134.jpg" --- > [But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-johanson/but-what-really-excited-me-was-the-idea-that-humans-had-a-tremendous/) [Donald Johanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-johanson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/donald-johanson-16932_animals_but-what-really-excited-me-was-the-idea_99134.jpg) > [“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-pre-history-of-our-species-is-hag-ridden-with-episodes-of/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b97/christopher-hitchens-117_burned_the-pre-history-of-our-species-is-hag-ri_1646677.jpg) > [Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-bruce-cameron/pre-history-tells-us-that-our-species-used-to-be-a-hunter-gatherer/) [W. Bruce Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-bruce-cameron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/w-bruce-cameron-4604_community_pre-history-tells-us-that-our-species-us_2151845.png) > [“The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/the-altar-as-in-pre-history-is-anywhere-you-kneel/) [Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/camille-paglia-652_altar_the-altar-as-in-pre-history-is-anywhere_2324027.png) > [Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-finkielkraut/barbarism-is-not-the-inheritance-of-our-pre-history-it-is-the/) [Alain Finkielkraut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-finkielkraut/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b15/alain-finkielkraut-37070_barbarism_barbarism-is-not-the-inheritance-of-our_2792943.png) > [Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-maddin/older-recordings-just-seemed-to-take-me-somewhere-into-my-own-pre/) [Guy Maddin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-maddin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/guy-maddin-12338_history_older-recordings-just-seemed-to-take-me_2826042.jpg) > [One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/one-must-state-it-plainly-religion-comes-from-the-period-of-human-pre/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/christopher-hitchens-117_atoms_one-must-state-it-plainly-religion-comes_2991674.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pre-history/#itemlist", "name": "Pre History Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. 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