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“Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.”

Ifs World Christian Fall Interesting Islam Primitive Chunks Predecessors Monotheism

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.”

Photography Mirrors Mask Primitive Bourgeois Exorcism

Book:Fotografien

Source: Fotografien

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

Stills Superstitions Primitive Tribes Misinformation

Author:Bill Maher

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

Use Term Bob Primitive Dylan Eloquent Gershwin

Author:Al Kooper

“Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.”

Believe May Form Moon Scientist Frank Primitive Jupiter

Author:Norm MacDonald

“For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.”

World Reason Desire Left Alive Clean Primitive Documentaries

Author:Aaron Siskind

“Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.”

Humans Horrible Dawn Primitive

Author:Dana Gould

“Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.”

Helping Brain Despite Primitive Intricate Octopus Tentacles

Author:Dana Gould

“...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.”

Ifs Firsts Use Earth First Time Cameras Surprise Primitive Outsiders Imagery Fitting Primal

Author:Barbara Ess

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

Ideas Violent Primitive Violent Acts

Author:Pierre Klossowski

“I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.”

“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.”

Kind May Stills Form Song Language Animal Brain Vision Higher Activity Capacity Organization Primitive Psychics Triggers Dose Catalyst Emergence Enzymes Psilocybin

Author:Terence McKenna

“Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.”

Needs Mind Religious Support Weak Psychological Dependent Priests Instruction Primitive Magician

Author:Carl Jung

“Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.”

“Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.”

“Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle the same." Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. for it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.”

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

Way Mind Humans Beautiful Genius Noble Primitive Helplessness

Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

“At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.”

Dancer Primitive Storyteller

Author:Anne Lamott

“Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.”

People Way Whole Life Is Social Simple Race Class Ordinary Built Gender Visuals Primitive Stereotype Social Life Differentiation Social Status

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.”

States United United States Roots Instruments Slave Chapters Primitive Banjos

Author:Bela Fleck

“17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.”

“So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as well. No doubt, the best available theories of today will look primitive in comparison with what we are in a position to understand hundreds of years from now.”

Years Wells Looks Today Courses Doubt Psychology Position Theory Available No Doubt Comparison Rejects Primitive Epistemology

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid. After all, they knew that their understanding of acids was at a fairly primitive level, and what they wanted to do was understand something about the world better - the nature of acidity - not something about their own concepts.”

World Wanted Understanding Interest Levels Century Concepts Primitive Acid Chemist Analysing

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.”

People Country Form Christianity Enemy One Thing Devoted Primitive Monotheism Categorizing

Author:Gore Vidal

“I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.”

Wells Said Country States Religious United Christianity United States Fundamentals Superstitions Primitive Bias

Author:Gore Vidal

“There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.”

“The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.”

“I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.”

Church Members Instruments Primitive Cds Baptists

Author:Ralph Stanley

“The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'.”

World Stills Christian White Principles Practice Western Dogma Primitive Fundamentalist Supremacy Battered

Author:Andre Vltchek

“It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.”

Stills Spirit Rocks Ritual Rock N Roll Primitive Nomad

Author:Van Morrison

“We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.”

People Thinking Stills Different Might Spirit Stuff Records Rocks Intellectual Research Library Checks Rock N Roll Primitive

Author:Van Morrison

“Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.”

People Thinking Form Levels Too Much Rocks Guts Rock N Roll Primitive Emphasis

Author:Van Morrison

“[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.”

Knows Way Art Stills Form House Rocks Get Away Opera Rock N Roll Primitive Sophisticated Opera House

Author:Van Morrison

“It's not that big a mystery about types. It's not even that big a mystery why so many people are picking up on things now. It's like we were talking about the primitive thing before and all that. Nothing has really changed much. The things that have changed are like we're on the noon now. There are more buildings now. But we're still basically two monkeys sitting here.”

People Stills Two Bigs Talking Mystery Changed Building Type Sitting Primitive Monkeys Noon

Author:Van Morrison

“I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.”

Writing Pens Primitive

Author:Chinua Achebe

“There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.”

Way Looks Shows Kids Form Parent Materials Picks Available Beach Sand Primitive Mama

Author:Frank Gehry

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

Ideas Religious Karma Superstitions Primitive

Author:Jim Goad

“Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.”

World Persons States Dream Sleep Students Contact Primitive Irrational Plato Deprived Outside World

Author:Erich Fromm

“Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.”

May Sometimes Primitive Armament

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.”

Done House Complicated Gas Primitive Backyards

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.”

“If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Two Names White Cases Mystery Color Ultimate Philosophical Jew Abstract Primitive Biblical Existential Deities Beard Two Ways Describing Mislead

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.”

Firsts House Sides Judgment Israel Prophet Primitive Testament Foe Majesty Old Testament Transcendent True Religion House Of God

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.”

Art Stills Reality Form Used Courses Technology Painting Art Is Used To Be Etc Primitive Sculpture

Author:Paul Virilio

“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.”

“I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?”

People Ifs Want Kind May Book Seems Grows Waiting Growth Term Space Company Limits Economics Valuable Primitive Publishing Expanding Corrections Down The Road Retail New Business

Author:William Gibson

“I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that.”

People Thinking World Way Stills Culture Enjoy Sound Environment Car Color Smell Senses Our World Gray Primitive Crave Richness Garage Cubicles

Author:Janet Fitch

“Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even the most primitive kind of the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you wouldn't have a Manhattan. There wouldn't be a democracy of any kind in America.”

Ifs World Kind America Democracy Civilization Weapons Trade Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Primitive Threatening Manhattan Hiroshima World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Robert Scheer

“I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.”

People Thinking World Looks Children Government Choices Cities Imagine Century Citizens Our Children Primitive 21st Century 20th Century Floating Living On Marvellous

Author:Joe Quirk

“[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica [tin glazed earthenware], and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.”

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