Animism Quote by Graham Harvey

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always loved…

— Graham Harvey

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.

— Graham Harvey

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality,…

— Emma Restall Orr

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

— John Fowles

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

— Robert Hughes

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -…

— Marshall Berman

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how…

— Le Corbusier

It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and…

— Kenny Smith

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old…

— Bernard Werber

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

— Rick Yancey