If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history… — Stephen Hawking 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
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
... 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
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
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
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
Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the… — George Lincoln Rockwell 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
And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account,… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did;… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some… — Joseph Alexander Leighton 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
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
Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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