Primitive Quotes - Page 12

• A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

  Michael Behe

  Men, Wind, Car

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• By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

  Robert Quine

  Punk, Standards, Virtuoso

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• Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

  Max Muller

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.33, Book Tree

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• We runners are all a little nutty, but we're good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may not understand running, but we do, and we cherish it. That's our only message.

  John J. Kelley

  Running, People, Challenges

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• It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Thinking, Feelings

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

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• In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Order, Holocaust

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• Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Bridges, Views

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Evil, Simplicity

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• If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole day so they can sing and dance with abandon at night.

  Rajneesh

  Night, Watches, Way

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• Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

  Morton Feldman

  Memories, Structure, Music Is

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

  Paul Klee

  Want, Newborn, Birth

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• The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Judging, Survival, Would Be

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2013). “Dark Benediction”, p.83, Hachette UK

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

  Sydney Pollack

  Stars, Would Be, Movie Star

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

  Dominique de Menil

  Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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• Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

  Tanith Lee

  Executioners, Rite

  "Sabella".

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• Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Healing, Articulation, Mystical

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• The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don’t need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.

  Mark Epstein

  Healing, Thinking, Keys

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• Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.

  Robert Helpmann

  Football, Art, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Past, Men, Personality

  "The Collected Works".

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• She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Bird, Blooming, Decay

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “The Painted Bird”, p.70, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same curious amusement as rain and sun gods do today. Or perhaps our god will simply be shelved along with Zeus and Jupiter. Some day. But until then, we suffer the consequences of a population that believes in the absence of evidence and, more curiously, rejects an objective reality that conflicts with beliefs easily proven false.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Rain, Believe, Past

  "Pareidolia in Politics: The Face of Faith’s Corrupting Influence". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hard Work, Allies, Helping

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• Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Fighting, Superstitions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Dwelling, House, Age

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Book, Men

  "Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1929.

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