Matter of fact Quote by Karl Marx

“...seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]”

— Elias Canetti

“Not in depraved things, but in those well oriented according to nature, are we to consider what is natural.”

— Aristotle

“Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations.”

— Toba Beta

“The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones.…

— Anonymous

“Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.”

— Jennifer Ott

“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to…

— Frank Herbert

“Long time ago, many pre-human civilizations had developed so advanced into a level where most people today assume them simply as works of nature.”

— Toba Beta

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”

— Mark Twain

“Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull…

— Knut Hamsun

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche