Top 1200 Primitive Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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, Through this evolving awareness, and his awareness of that awareness, he can emerge with the miraculous-to which we can attach what better name than 'God'? And in this merging, as long sensed by intuition but still only vaguely perceived by rationality, experience may travel without need for accompanying life.

When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius of the Greeks; no primitive peoples have ever come to study us. This is, on the one hand, a disinterested, intellectually inspired impulse. It is one of our glories. But it is, on the other, part and parcel of exploitation. [] The Western obsession with inquiry, with analysis, with the classification of all living forms, is itself a mode of subjugation, of psychological and technical mastery.

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time.

Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

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

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

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

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

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

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.

Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

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

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: `The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.'

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Pikaia is a missing link because, of all chordates, it's probably the most primitive.

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.