Primal Quotes
169 quotes by 149 authors
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Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why we often see packs of…
— Suzy Kassem
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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
— Laozi
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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation…
— Giordano Bruno
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Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here.…
— David Blankenhorn
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The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.
— Dean Ornish
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Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot…
— Guido von List
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Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits?…
— Eli Roth
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YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!
— Arthur Jensen
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Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.
— Ori Hofmekler
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Although we seem to be separate individuals, in reality we are all expressions of one primal imagination. We assume we are many, but in fact…
— Timothy Freke
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Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our…
— Joshua Foer
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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
— James Ramsey Ullman
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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
— Max Beerbohm
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Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to…
— John Lahr
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Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish…
— Maurice Samuel
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Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.
— Laozi
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I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a…
— Siobhan Fahey
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It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a…
— Jim Butcher
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