Archaic Quotes

70 Archaic quotes by 64 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. — Bridget Riley
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
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
A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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 must become a… — Che Guevara
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
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
What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because… — Philip Kaufman
Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic… — Dmitry Medvedev
Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you… — Clementine Ford
Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. — Dee Hock
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not… — Philip Guston

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