Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as primitive in the way Western education has traditionally conditioned people to perceive it.” — Gregory Cajete Copy Share Image
The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I once visited a village of primitive people. At village, I felt time and life moved slower.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“Civilization’ is just a word! There is a touch of indirect ‘racism’ in it. It unjustly means that the primitive people were… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“By what criteria can one decide which of a person's countless beliefs are primitive? The essential factor is that they are taken… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the… — James Mace Copy Share Image
The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
