Best Primordial Quotations
95 Primordial quotes by 74 unique authors
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Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This…
— Carl Jung
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What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be…
— Clarice Lispector
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He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started…
— Jack London
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This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante…
— Richelle Mead
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I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and…
— Richard Paul Evans
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Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways…
— Rollo May
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a…
— Edward Abbey
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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
— Terence McKenna
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And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward…
— Martin Heidegger
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Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching…
— Tom DeLay
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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad…
— David Novak
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Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no…
— Joanna Lumley
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Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Hostility is born from different ideologies, it is impossible to keep on hating something that has neither a will nor an ideology. There is only…
— Bleach
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a…
— Alberto Giacometti
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What recipe was used for the primordial soup?
— Mariana Fulger
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