Archaic Quotes
70 quotes by 65 authors
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night…
— Camille Paglia
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building…
— Dee Hock
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I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals…
— Jimmy Hoffa
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It…
— H.G. Wells
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Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of…
— Guillaume Faye
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It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back…
— Scarlett Johansson
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Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too,…
— Gary Valentine
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the…
— Edward Abbey
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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia…
— Jacques Derrida
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
— Bridget Riley
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A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand…
— Michelangelo Signorile
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As the New Earth approaches, our way of thinking is being challenged more and more. The Veil is thinning and lifting as our consciousness expands.…
— Dolores Cannon
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A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.
— Francis Henry Taylor
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Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you…
— Fran Lebowitz
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society…
— Mircea Eliade
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When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful…
— Luis J. Rodriguez
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To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary…
— Che Guevara
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Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building,…
— Bruce Sterling
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The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!)…
— Augusto Boal
Who Wrote These Archaic Quotes
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