Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It must be said that almost all primitive people think themselves divinely wrought, singled out and special. Often their names translate simply… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
So decisive", he murmured in that calm tone that had adrenaline flooding her body, the primitive part of her brain conscious she… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated… — Estelle Ramey 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
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design,… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order.… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose… — D. W Brogan Copy Share Image
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers,… — Horace Copy Share Image
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Primitive societies are largely free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dental cavities, economic theories, lounge music, and other modern ailments.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own… — William Law Copy Share Image
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems… — Peter Asher Copy Share Image
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples,… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
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