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“Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.”

Way School Social Study Taught Theory Truth Is High School Despite Primitive Social Studies

Book:Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

“Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.”

Used Common Effort Opinion Democratic Silent Communism Opposition Diverse Dogma Primitive Common Denominator Demagoguery Anti Communism

Author:Eugen Kogon

“In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth.”

Earth Term Design Evolution Cells Diverse Primitive Sequence Hints

Author:Michael Denton

“And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain primitive or simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved: now whether there be any such body to be constantly met with in all, and each, of those that are said to be elemented bodies, is the thing I now question.”

Mean Made Said Body Science Certain Speak Simple Mistake Principles Mets Elements Definitions Ingredients Primitive

Book:The Sceptical Chymist

Source: The Sceptical Chymist

“Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.”

“Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.”

Father Fields Anxiety Gains Mortals Primitive Agriculture Oxen

Author:Horace

“A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?”

People Ifs Believe Feelings Faces Girl Behinds Vision Imagine Youth Fairs Moved Weather Primitive Sympathetic Eighteen Woven

Book:Romola: In Two Volumes

Source: Romola: In Two Volumes

“Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.”

Men World Hate Environment Achieve Devil Conviction Convinced Agents Radical Hated Primitive Be A Man

Author:John Ciardi

“If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Important Hard Fighting Fun Evolution Survival Destruction Being True Primitive Hunts Prey Rivals Survival Of The Fittest

Book:The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2

Source: The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2

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

Heart Fire Television Understood Burning Appeals Charm Primitive Irresistible

Author:John Updike

“Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.”

Mean Art Force Painting Morality Contrary Charm Primitive Extensions Decadence

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.”

Way Mean Simple Painting Expression Wine Primitive Vocabulary Expressive

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.”

Way Mind Art Eye Addresses Primitive

Book:Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery

Source: Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery

“With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.”

Mean Art Able Artist Creativity Technology Creating Painter Efficient Primitive Ingenious Famous Artist Creating New Things

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.”

Joy Ability Music Dignity Absolutes Breaths Phrases Significance Passages Primitive Simplest Energetic Squeezing Motifs Dignity And Strength

Author:Robert Genn

“When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.”

Ifs May Helping Effects Perspective Primitive Composition

Author:E. J. Hughes

“The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.”

Looks Stage Style Primitive Scenery

Author:E. J. Hughes

“An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.”

Humor Funny Fields Reports Tides Primitive Tribes Lemons Guinea Anthropologists Field Trip

Book:Late night with David Letterman: the book

Source: Late night with David Letterman: the book

“I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.”

People Thinking Want Would Be Natural Study Our Lives Music Is Various Rhythm Realization Primitive Indispensable Animation Animator Live Every Day

Author:Walt Disney

“The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.”

Men Earth Modern Terrible Weapons Phrases Arrogance Misfortunes Primitive Insects Convenience Silent Spring

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Humor Funny Fields Humorous Machines Sight Israel Destroyed Primitive Pulling Shocked Tractors

Author:Golda Meir

“It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.”

Thinking Firsts Feelings Lost Wish Religious Existence Clear Youth Chains Paradise Primitive Thinking God

Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.”

“The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.”

May Home Creative Genius Logic Primitive Naive Symbolism Knowledgeable Creative Genius

Author:Frank X. Barron

“A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.”

Firsts Wells Children States Spiritual Community Caring Well Being Organized Primitive Providing Eden

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge today of any civilisation. The type of man dominant today is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.”

Men World Has Beens Principles Taken Judging Type Rising Midst Primitive Not Interested Dominant Civilisation Civilised Rising Up

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.”

Needs Mind Persons Form Values Individual Known Roots Logic Missions Senses Primitive

Book:Autobiography of values

Source: Autobiography of values

“Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.”

Mean Reality Able Values Fantasy Judging Distance Patient Newspapers Cures Journalism Primitive Psychoanalysis Therapeutic Fantasy And Reality

Author:Bill Vaughan

“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

“Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.”

Moments Culture Three Consciousness Christianity Stage Ideals Claims Western Supreme Socialism Primitive Transcendence Western Culture Blackmail Monotheism Sinai Ibsen

Author:George Steiner

“With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.”

Knows Feels Mean Feelings Emotion Know How Records Written Pure Draws Pops Being True Crafts Primitive Spilling True Feelings

Author:David Byrne

“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

“An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.”

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.”

“The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.”

Source: Evolutionary Agents

“Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.”

Humans Lines Animal Behavior Crosses Primitive Human Behavior Robotics

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.”

Primitive Gross Machinery Ambiguous

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.”

“The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.”

Men World May Two Moving Sex Term Quality Understood Men And Women Female Males Opposition Primitive Defining Representing Two Worlds

Author:Laura Riding

“Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period when Observation, Induction, and Deduction were first employed, its birth must be referred to that comparatively recent period when the mind, rejecting the primitive tendency to seek in supernatural agencies for an explanation of all external phenomena, endeavoured, by a systematic investigation of the phenomena themselves to discover their invariable order and connection.”

Ifs Mind Firsts May Order Birth Periods Connections Tendencies Observation Explanation Agency Investigation Primitive Employed Systematic Rejecting Deductions

Book:Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

“Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.”

Political Practice Economy Expression Theory Essentials Claims Structure Historical Ideology Materialism Concrete Primitive Testimony Fluctuation

Author:Antonio Gramsci

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

People Thinking Kind Persons Real Facts Primitive

Author:Dave Matthews

“Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.”

Mean Art Law Used Highest Unity Familiar Works Of Art Primitive Comprehension

Book:The path to the new music

Source: The path to the new music

“In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).”

Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

“The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.”

Might Individual Responsibility Groups Identity Members Independence Formulas Individualism Primitive Sovereignty Individual Rights Clans

Book:Sane Society Ils 252

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.”

Stills Real Culture Reading Common Expression Listening Healthy Radio Newspapers Educated Artistic Village Primitive Literacy

Book:The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society

“Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.”

Stories Form Communication Primitive

Book:Start Something That Matters

Source: Start Something That Matters

“A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.”

Littles Shows Poor Cities Relation Genuine Sufficient Primitive Familiarity

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.”

Men Community Enemy Class Practice Workers Various Every Man Charm Injury Occupation Primitive Distribution Magician Uniformity

Author:James G. Frazer

“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

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