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
Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. — John Updike Copy Share Image
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples,… — Jean Dubuffet 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
“What's it mean; are you determined To make modern all mankind? If so, you should be be-sermoned And brought back to healthy… — Charles C. Abbott Copy Share Image
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems… — Peter Asher Copy Share Image
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive… — Natalie Copy Share Image
We literally have some of us in the modern culture trying their best to stomp out every other way of life, really.… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems to be no way… — Becker Ernest Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. — Henry James Sumner Maine 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
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience. — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature. — Lynn Jennings Copy Share Image
“The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Vengeance is primitive; which is why only two species in the universe practice it: humans and animals.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image