Nature of man Quote by Alexander Fennis

We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices

— Alexander Fennis

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what…

— Ahad Ha'am

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his…

— Loren Eiseley

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's…

— Charles Lindbergh

When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be…

— Emma Goldman

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

— Charles Baudelaire

There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these…

— John Dewey

“The primitive man experiences “soul,” first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of the outer…

— Oswald Spengler

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

— James G. Frazer

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in…

— Emma Goldman

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was…

— Katharine Hamnett