We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still… — Charles Kay Ogden Copy Share Image
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a… — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have… — William James Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry;… — Katharine Hamnett Copy Share Image
The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain… — Lazare Carnot Copy Share Image
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The antique, almost primitive band he held between his fingers caught the sunlight, glinting silver. “I found this ring shortly after I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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