Primitive Quotes - Page 26

• The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Art, Hands, Stories

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• But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

  Aleister Crowley

  America, Oasis, Europe

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• Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.

  Kenneth Clark

  Mother, Art, Powerful

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 1), 1969.

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• I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

  Karel Appel

  Expression, Color, Feelings

  "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 85 'Quotes', 1990.

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• If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Fate, Russia

  "Enter the Bunker". "The History Place: Defeat of Hitler", www.historyplace.com. 2010.

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• The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

  Fred Ritchin

  Form, Repetitive, Predictable

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Men, House

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• A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Mysterious, Natural

  1850 Journal entry,16 Nov. In Bradford Torrey and F H Allen (eds) The Journals of Henry David Thoreau (1906).

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• The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Dream, Blood, Profound

  Elizabeth Fishel (1979). “Sisters: shared histories, lifelong ties”, Red Wheel

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• If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

  Abigail Adams

  Father, Blessing, Simplicity

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

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

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Creativity, Mean

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• The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Hunting, Simple, Agriculture

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• 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.

  William James

  Fun, Fighting, Survival

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.412, Courier Corporation

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• CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Horse, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Fighting, Men

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• Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

  Rod Liddle

  Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother

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• All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

  Willis Harman

  Goal, Intuition, Ancient

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• The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.

  Polly Toynbee

  Islam, Body, Christianity

  "Behind the burka" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2001.

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• There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

  Kay Hooper

  Self, Hatred, Mind

  Kay Hooper (2010). “Stealing Shadows: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel”, p.31, Bantam

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• Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

  George Wald

  Life, Science, Years

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• Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Empty, Schemes

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.429, Princeton University Press

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• Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Science, Order, Numbers

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.245, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Simple, Race

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• There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Sacred, Way

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

  Ugo Betti

  Bullying, Unjust, Satisfaction

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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