Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 366 authors

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is… — Jean Baudrillard
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to… — Tony Bennett
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe… — Robert Bork
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two… — Albert Camus
I am the primitive of the method I have invented. — Paul Cezanne
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster… — Lewis Mumford
Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that… — Masanobu Fukuoka
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb
Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that… — Adolf Hitler
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion… — Albert Einstein
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of… — Ugo Betti
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… — George Santayana
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul. — James Russell Lowell
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. — Joseph Addison
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his… — Muhammad Asad
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 potentialities… — Charles Lindbergh
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and… — Isaac Newton
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein

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