Complexes Quote by Rex Stout

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first…

— William Graham Sumner

“Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beings as men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.”

— Toba Beta

When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be…

— Emma Goldman

We have grown from primitive man into modern ways and are now looking for modern humans from merely primitive choices

— Alexander Fennis

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

— Charles Baudelaire

There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these…

— John Dewey

“The primitive man experiences “soul,” first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of the outer…

— Oswald Spengler

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices

— Alexander Fennis

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

— James G. Frazer

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in…

— Emma Goldman

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was…

— Katharine Hamnett