Primitive Quotes

423 Primitive quotes by 353 unique authors

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic… — John Mortimer
There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either… — Bronislaw Malinowski
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. — Marie-Louise von Franz
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a… — Charles Nicolle
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to… — Unknown Author
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — Unknown Author
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches. — Auguste Comte
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.... — G. E. M. Anscombe
The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature. — Lynn Jennings
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been… — Franz Boas
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of… — Christina Stead
From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years. — Malcolm Allison
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing… — Desmond Morris
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there… — Sigurd F. Olson
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of… — Unknown Author
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same. — Pope Pius XII
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. — Russ Feingold
The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. — Sigmund Freud
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the… — Adolf Hitler
They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under… — Pope Leo XIII
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored… — Unknown Author

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