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
If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
“There is goоd reason to believe that primitive mаn suffered from less stress and frustration and was better satisfied with his way… — Ted Kacyzinski Copy Share Image
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but… — Charmian Clift Copy Share Image
Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into… — Vladimir Putin 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
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive… — Walt Disney 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
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
“Things is very primitive in the jungle - no place to shit, sleep on the ground like an animal, eat out of… — Winston Groom Copy Share Image
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive.… — Frank Gehry 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
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to… — George Wald 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
This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people… — Alfred Hitchcock 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
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 Copy Share Image
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse… — Thomas Harris 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
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
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