Quotes About Primitive

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

They dramatically overidealize this primitive lack of differentiation. Just because the self is not aware of suffering does not mean it has a positive presence of spiritual bliss. Lack of awareness doesn't mean presence of paradise!

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.

Over the millennia, man has developed three ways of thinking about time: chaotic, cyclical, and linear. The first was the dominant view of primitive man, the second of ancient and traditional civilizations, and the third of the modern West, especially America.

Things is very primitive in the jungle - no place to shit, sleep on the ground like an animal, eat out of cans, no place to take a bath or nothing, clothes is all rotting off.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Instinct is older than paper, wilder than words.

He's never been close to a tragedy that barbaric, never experienced a shock so primitive that it shakes him to the very core of his beliefs. In short, Nicolás has never had a fundamental change of heart. So he's unaware of the way Newton's third law can resonate in a place like this: for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption.

He's never been close to a tragedy that barbaric, never experienced a shock so primitive that it shakes him to the very core of his beliefs. In short, Nicolás has never had a fundamental change of heart.

dans les mythes et les rituels des religions primitives, Girard l'applique au judéo-christianisme, le Christ étant le fameux bouc émissaire d'abord rejeté, puis divinisé, sacrifié par ses congénères puis reconnu comme leur libérateur par bon nombre d'entre eux.

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

The list of things everyone should know is short. I would include how the brain is composed of the new part and the older parts. I would include how the neocortex learns a model of the world, whereas the older parts of the brain generate our emotions and more primitive behaviors. I would include how the old brain can take control, causing us to act in ways we know we shouldn't. And I would include how all of us are susceptible to false beliefs and how some beliefs are viral.

When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

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

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one... but it ain't especially smart.

Except for the primitive markers of day and night, time lay ahead of me in continuous, undefined mass.

compassionate humor is an expression of Human Spirit. As you battle your own most primitive, defensive reactions, there is no better weapon.

I don't keep a mobile, I am not computer savvy; I am not on any website. I live like a cave man.

Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.

They're walking around in clothing but they're still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.

I am merely trying to show that, in the present primitive condition of this backward planet, we are still governed by imprinting and conditioning — that all of us, like Mr. Gardner and Mr. Randi, find it literally impossible to think, even for a nanosecond, about certain ideas — that you and I think we are more tolerant than Mr. Randi or Mr. Gardner until we confront that which is strictly intolerable for us —

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.