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To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
— Robert M. Pirsig
The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.
— Woody Allen
Seizing and incorporating ... There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]
— Elias Canetti
This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.
— Frederick Lenz
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
— Henry David Thoreau
A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.
— Sarah Hall
For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused.
— Agatha Christie
Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch ...
— John Geddes
Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
— Blake Mycoskie
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
— Isadora Duncan
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.
— Abhijit Naskar
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
— Marcel Duchamp
If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
— Abhijit Naskar
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
— Geraldine Brooks
Playing the cello did feel nicely neolithic, or at least a civilized way to process the primitive.
— Eric Siblin
At this stage I can see most of the men are still primitive about sexual perception and conception.
— Baris Gencel
The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.
— Pierre Klossowski
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
— Debbie Harry
the fear of the human dead, which, on the whole, I believe to have been probably the most powerful force in the making of primitive religion.
— James George Frazer
Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.
— Robert Mankoff
Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.
— John Thomas Sladek
Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw
— Tom Robbins
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
— Georges Braque
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.
— Bill Maher
In the name of violence; offenders are only primitive henchmen.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler - that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id.
— Karen Marie Moning
The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get ...
— G. E. M. Anscombe
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
— Dion Fortune
We Americans are a primitive people ... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
— Charles Lindbergh
Stay primitive. Trust the soup. Swing for the seats.
— Steven Pressfield
Philanderers and swingers can see nothing beyond the needs of their genitals. Sexual craving is a part of our biology, but it is not who we are.
— Abhijit Naskar
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
— Sheilah Graham Westbrook
This man, a vagabond, hunter, and trapper, had always been strange in the eyes of his primitive associates.
— H.P. Lovecraft
So far as we can ascertain, in primitive cultures the idea of romantic love did not exist at all.
— Nathaniel Branden
Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.
— Anthony Marais
The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.
— Danielle Rohr
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
— Christina Stead
It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
— Arthur Eddington
Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.
— Helene Cixous
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
— Robert Quine
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
— Paul Cezanne
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
— Isaac Asimov
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
— William Dean Howells
Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
— Albert Hadley
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
— J.J. Abrams
Shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.
— Muriel Barbery
The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.
— Adolf Hitler
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.
— Pope Pius XII
Primitive religions are based entirely on fear
— Albert Einstein
Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races. — Toba Beta
If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
— Charmian Clift
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
— Russell Baker
What's it mean; are you determinedTo make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott
Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.
— Susan Mitchell
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
— James Madison
People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things.
— Paul A.M. Dirac
I longed for Mum in the most primitive way
— Gabrielle Zevin
We rarely are conscious of those primitive anxieties that creep out from under reason. And the only way to banish them is to turn on all the lights.
— Patricia Cornwell
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.
— Karen Marie Moning
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
— Robert Wyatt
Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains!" Rousseau saw the primitive as innocent and autonomous freedom as the final good. We
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Hypnosis can return an adult to more primitive levels of consciousness and may be related to reported memories of experiences in infancy.
— Marlene Steinberg
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.
— Kazimir Malevich
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.
— Edward Gibbon
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
— Charles Lindbergh
You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.
— Heather Demetrios
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
— Christina Stead
I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.
— Dave Matthews
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists ... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.
— William Baziotes
