Best Primitive Man Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather monstrous historical figment of retrospective definition, one of the commonest of theoretical concerns was to speculate on the nature of society, and on the nature of social development. Theories of Man's primitive nature blossomed, and the Romantics looked both to nature and to this primal human essence for their poetic and intellectual inspiration. At the same time as British intellectuals were becoming more and more interested in the nature of primitive man and primitive society, they had within their own national boundaries a fitting subject for their attention. The Scottish Gael fulfilled this role of the 'primitive', albeit one quickly and savagely tamed, at a time when every thinking man was turning towards such subjects. The Highlands of Scotland provided a location for this role that was distant enough to be exotic (in customs and language) but close enough to be noticed; that was near enough to visit, but had not been drawn so far into the calm waters of civilisation as to lose all its interest.”

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Book:The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture

Source: The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture

“When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.”

Men Force Saws Greater Heard Rain Accounts Various Primitive Lightning Thunder Primitive Man Supernatural Forces

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“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.”

Men Humans Law Night Human Beings Animal Break Dangerous Instinct Destructive Lions Primitive Bulls Herds Nuisance Fetch Primitive Man Law Breakers

Author:Carl Jung

“The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.”

Men Humans Suffering Consideration Primitive Calculations Human Suffering Primitive Man

Author:James G. Frazer

“To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, - while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.”

“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.”

“Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.”

Men Should Wells Natural Sin Influence Devil Affair Dues Explanation Primitive Intervention Crude Serpent Primitive Man

Book:The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.”

Men Faces Force Natural Attitude Doubt Environment Atheism Positive Atheism No Doubt Primitive Dominant Dependence Natural Environment Old Saying Primitive Man

Author:John Dewey

“Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.”

Men Complexes Labels Primitive Primitive Man

Book:The Father Hunt

Source: The Father Hunt

“By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.”

Men Knowledge Civilization Regions Civilized Primitive Confined Specialization Primitive Man

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.”

Men World Economic Finance Perceive Dawn Explanation Superstitions Primitive Jungle Financiers Primitive Man Economic History

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.”

Men Kind Doe Art Sound Simple Degrees Unique Jokes Art Is Intelligent Proof Division Primitive Monkeys Brutes Signatures Nature Of Man Simple Truths Truism Primitive Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods”

Thinking Men World Kind Spirit Common Doubt Imagine Happenings Common Sense Rational Shock Our World Sanity Primitive Accustomed Fetish Primitive Man

Author:Carl Jung

“Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!”

People Men Firsts Ideas Use Force Goal Moral Modern Achieve Stupid Gun Method Clever Primitive Persuasion Immoral Brutes Stupid People Modern Man Brute Force Primitive Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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.”

Ifs Men Civilization Roots Primitive Nurture Wildness Primitive Man

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.”

Men Sometimes Objects Stones Skins Notion Woods Bones Primitive Fabric Ivory Bronze Pottery Primitive Man

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men I Can Faces Names Masters Contemporary Servant Demon Disorder Primitive Face To Face Calculations Primitive Man

Author:Karl Jaspers

“The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.”

Men Ideas Religion Force Parent Saws Ignorance Curiosity Manifestation Fancy Conception Superstitions Primitive Sinister Ignorance And Fear Primitive Man

Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.”

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Author:Bob Fosse

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.”

“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.”

“If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.”

Ifs Men Life Firsts Together Science Life Is Learning Perception Tasks Perceive Primitive Anthropology Thoughts On Life Primitive Man Ethnography

Author:William Graham Sumner

“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.”

Men Love Needs Art Ideas Desire Morality Primitive Taboo Primitive Man

Author:Christina Stead

“We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.”

People Thinking Men Should Mind Used Nations Steps Greater Son Errors Desert Primitive Palestine Donkey Crafty Primitive Man

Author:Ahad Ha'am

“Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man”

Men Today Sin Vices Mortals Primitive Inclination Demise Adaptive Mortal Sin Primitive Man

Book:On aggressión

Source: On aggressión

“The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.”

Men Years Rocks Information Painting Years Ago Dancing Dance France Primitive Primitive Man

Author:Curt Sachs

“The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?”

Men Looks Fashion Practicals Dry Clothings Primitive Mystical Erotic Primitive Man

Author:Katharine Hamnett

“Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.”

Men Made Problem Break Solutions Discovery Obstacles Legs Touched Chemistry Primitive Mistaken Supposing New Knowledge Primitive Man Break A Leg

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.”

Thinking Men Humans Doe Individual Society Modern Evolution Drink Achievement Reasoning Subtle Primitive Naive Modern Science Primitive Man

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics