Quotes About Primitive

And at the root of this mental transformation are two simple biological traits—the visual and the social—that primitive humans leveraged into power.

To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.

He looked like some primitive golden god hunted to death.

The state of our fire became as important to us as it must have been to a primitive tribe. When it sulked and sank we were filled with dismay; when it blazed all was well with the world; but if – God save us – it went out altogether, then we were clutched by primeval chills.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

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.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

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.

Socialisté se hrubÄ› mýlí, když v??í, že emoce a postoje typické pro malé primitivní skupiny (založené na principech solidarity, altruismu a loajality) mohou dosta?ovat k zachování rozÅ¡íÃ…â"¢eného Ã…â"¢ádu spole?enské kooperace tvoÃ…â"¢ícího moderní spole?nost.

Whether we deal with primitive religions, with theistic or non-theistic religions, they are all attempts to give an answer to man's existential problem.

The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.

Among primitives, and wherever the conditions are primitive, the conflict between individual consciousness and the collective tendencies of the unconscious is resolved in favor of the collective and at the cost of the individual.

To be sure, primitives often celebrate death—as Hocart and others have shown—because they believe that death is the ultimate promotion, the final ritual elevation to a higher form of life, to the enjoyment of eternity in some form. Most modern Westerners have trouble believing this any more, which is what makes the fear of death so prominent a part of our psychological make-up.

We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

The taste of the masses isn't for structured music, it's for rhythm. Primitive music, Black music, has had a big influence in determining what's played on the radio, because the radio audience is more primitive in tastes than the concert audiences were.

Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.