Best Primordial Sayings
95 Primordial quotes by 74 unique authors
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The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained…
— Theodore White
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The name 'cherubim' means 'fullness of knowledge' or 'outpouring of wisdom'... The name cherubim signifies the power to know and to see God, to receive…
— Pope Dionysius
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I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance
— Iris van Herpen
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Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the…
— Carl Jung
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The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In…
— Carl Jung
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This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of…
— Stanislav Grof
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Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we…
— Tom Robbins
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To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But…
— Raymond Sokolov
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Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind…
— Raymond Chandler
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In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat…
— Pope Pius XII
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Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work…
— Bill Watterson
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The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
— Albert Camus
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As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial…
— Octavio Paz
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Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic…
— Michael Beckwith
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Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to…
— Steven Pressfield
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Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all…
— Jill Tarter
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I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have…
— George Steiner
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String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to…
— Brian Greene
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Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic…
— Ezra Miller
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The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How…
— Vivienne Westwood
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Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give,…
— Helen Fisher
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There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times,…
— Carl Jung
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