Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 353 authors

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from,… — Clarence Darrow
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their… — Benjamin Franklin
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same… — Jeff Schweitzer
Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both… — Frank X. Barron
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber — Rowan Pelling
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. — James Mark Baldwin
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive.… — Peter Asher
I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how… — Terry Riley
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic,… — James Mace
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the… — Ian Mcewan
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or… — Carl Gustav Hempel
All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they… — Francis Brett Young
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual… — Jerzy Kosinski
A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work. — Adolf Hitler
The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to… — John Foster Dulles
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to… — Lionel Trilling
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on… — Chinua Achebe
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of… — Susan Sontag

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