Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can… — Martinus Beijerinck Copy Share Image
In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to… — Carl Jung 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
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Fritz Muller Copy Share Image
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment… — Don Everly Copy Share Image
The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive." — Fred Ritchin 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
Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience. — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
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 paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
