“primitive man has never existed; he is nothing but a poetical creation of monistic imagination” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
We have grown from primitive man into modern ways and are now looking for modern humans from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis 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
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
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Did he really not remember where it was, or is there some primitive part of a man’s brain that starts to shut… — Tina Reber Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I will produce a lowly Primitive; "Man" shall be his name. I will create a Primitive Worker; He will be charged with… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor… — Ahad Ha'am Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman 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
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be… — Carl Jung 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
“The primitive man experiences “soul,” first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To-day all our novels and newspapers will be found to be swarming with numberless allusions to the popular character called a Cave-Man.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart… — Loren Eiseley 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
Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was… — Bob Fosse Copy Share Image
The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry;… — Katharine Hamnett Copy Share Image
“But for a little second, I just want to sit in this stupid chair and believe there is this sort of magic… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image