“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.” MenHumansLawNightHuman BeingsAnimalBreakDangerousInstinctDestructiveLionsPrimitiveBullsHerdsNuisanceFetchPrimitive ManLaw Breakers Author:Carl Jung
“Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.” HumansLinesAnimalBehaviorCrossesPrimitiveHuman BehaviorRobotics Author:J. J. Abrams
“Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.” HumansAmericaDiesImaginationHuman BeingsAnimalCitiesWorstHolesCapitalistPrimitiveWoundedJungleSlumsInner CityWounded Animal Book:Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West Source: Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
“English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.” TwoMovingHoursAnimalImpossibleGrewCreaturesScientistPlantSizeSmellStupiditySpeedSquaresYellowThickFavouritePrimitiveOrganismsYardsFrightMouldSlimePorridge Author:Neal Ascherson
“The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.” FormTermAnimalBenefitsWanderBordersOfficialsPrimitiveCurrencyDeclarationWhimPassportsGorillasBriberyBeastly Book:Last Chance To See Source: Last Chance To See
“The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.” IdeasLawPerfectAnimalMagicIgnoranceEatingOneselfGenuineMeatNonsenseMysticismFacultyPrimitive Author:Franz Bardon
“Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.” MenMindSoulFeelingsGovernmentFallSinAnimalPowerfulPrinciplesGreatnessDivineCreaturesFellowsNobleSelfishSelfishnessWelfareDimensionsPrimitiveDivine LoveRetiredForsakenSmallness Author:Jonathan Edwards
“In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.” HumansArtStatesLawNamesLanguageAnimalCreationDeserveIllPrimitiveHuntersDistinguishedBrutes Author:Edward Gibbon
“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.” PeopleThinkingMenYearsHumansKindMayChildrenHas BeensReasonPhilosophyTodayLastsLanguageParentAnimalExistenceSituationPracticeMagicInfluenceLandBalanceMen And WomenYears AgoInstitutionsBoundariesParadiseNo ReasonPrimitiveAltruismChildren And ParentsClimaxDissolvingPsilocybin Author:Terence McKenna
“At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.” KindMayStillsFormSongLanguageAnimalBrainVisionHigherActivityCapacityOrganizationPrimitivePsychicsTriggersDoseCatalystEmergenceEnzymesPsilocybin Author:Terence McKenna