“Please don’t be fooled by the word primitive. Although it conjures up images of backward people, over the past eighty years research… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking… — Henry James Copy Share Image
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together.… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies,… — Trevanian 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 you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I… — Uri Avnery 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
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
At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself… — Albert Einstein 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
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a… — John Millington Synge 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
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a… — Charles Buck 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
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like… — Timothy Garton Ash 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
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image