Primitive Quotes - Page 2

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

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

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

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

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.