Primitive Quotes

423 Primitive quotes by 353 unique authors

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. — Jeanette Winterson
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows… — Loren Eiseley
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between… — Dean Koontz
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. — Isaac Asimov
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he… — Thomas Sowell
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to… — Margaret Mead
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I… — Sylvia Plath
Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become… — Karl Jaspers
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more… — Henry James
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears. — Henry Cloud
Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that… — Anne Rice
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and… — James F. Cooper
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which… — Michael Palin
I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I… — Douglas Adams
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another… — Henry David Thoreau
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured,… — Mircea Eliade
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about… — Elizabeth Gilbert
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because… — Jean Cocteau
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not… — Northrop Frye
It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in… — Michel Houellebecq
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. — Karen Marie Moning
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word… — Dorothy L. Sayers

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