Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 353 authors

Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation,… — Kenny Smith
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. — Robert Graves
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under… — Michael Behe
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it… — Max Muller
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy… — Idries Shah
Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness. — Todd Duncan
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the… — Ludwig von Mises
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. — Charles Lindbergh
Primitive does not mean stupid. — Albie Sachs
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our… — George Eliot
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to… — Margaret Mead
You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet… — Rod Serling
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone… — Edgar Allan Poe
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us… — Norman Mailer
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of… — Isaiah Berlin
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much… — Donna Tartt
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history. — Fatos Nano
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write… — Graham Nelson

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