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
Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
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 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
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 the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer 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
Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a… — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would… — Anandi Gopal Joshi Copy Share Image
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The… — Louis Bernacchi Copy Share Image
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and… — Constant Lambert 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
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