Quotes About Primitive

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

It was building up in his chest, that long guttural howl reserved for real emergencies — like when you ran into a saber-toothed tiger without your club, or your fire went out during the Ice Age.

Marx here saw all production up to that point as alienated. Alienation did not begin with capitalism, or even with feudalism. It has been the companion of humanity ever since the beginning. He did not, as is often asserted, have any notion of an Edenic primitive condition.

With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected.

Primitive societies are largely free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dental cavities, economic theories, lounge music, and other modern ailments.

We said that mere judgment would probably suffice in a primitive society. It is easy for a society to live without mathematics—

So far as we can ascertain, in primitive cultures the idea of romantic love did not exist at all.

Olemassaoloni on ollut kummallista ja alkukantaista, paljolti hirvittävää, totaalista juopumusta, mutta se oli minun tapani puskea tämän paskan läpi.

revert to the wild aboriginal stock.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling primitive (since this renders us modern without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)...

primitive kitchens and rudimentary laundry

really primitive auditory hardware

This cave within a cave, this paleolithic pussy, this decent into the deepest dark of fuck.

Love is private and primitive and a bit on the funky and frightening side. I think of the Luna card in the Tarot deck: some strange, huge crustacean, its armor glistening and its pinchers wiggling, clatters out of a pool while wild dogs howl at a bulging moon. Underneath the hearts and flowers, love is loony like that. Attempts to housebreak it, to refine it, to dress the crabs up like doves and make them sing soprano always result in thin blood. You end up with a parody.

private and primitive and a bit on the funky and frightening

The reptile brain is the dragon within us.

In order to make the language of dreams understood, we use many parallels from the psychology of primitive races as well as from historical symbolism. This is because dreams originate in the unconscious, which contains the residual potentialities of function of all preceding epochs of evolution.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential. Fire harkens back to our wilder selves, the parts we let out only when we think no one is looking.

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends, so naturally parties – particularly the more flamboyant ones – became red-letter days, preceded by endless preparations.

Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.