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
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
Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'. — John Thomas Sladek Copy Share Image
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there… — Maurice Maeterlinck 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
Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
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
Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path.… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people… — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We runners are all a little nutty, but we're good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may… — John J. Kelley Copy Share Image
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