Primitive Quotes · Page 16

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against…

— Carl Jung

In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any…

— Michael Denton

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I…

— Charles Darwin

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all…

— Alexander von Humboldt

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all…

— Walt Whitman

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

— Muriel Barbery

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an…

— Evelyn Waugh

The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period…

— George Henry Lewes

I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being,…

— Anais Nin

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it.…

— Noah Webster

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

— John Updike

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

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is…

— Madame de Stael

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a…

— John Millington Synge

In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has…

— James G. Frazer

I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history…

— Stephen Hawking

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

— Al Kooper

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces…

— Susan Sontag

When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and…

— Graham Nelson

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

— Anonymous