Primitive Quotes

• English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Christian
  • Perfection

• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Long
  • Reality

• Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Journalism
  • Incredibly
  • Aesthetics

• In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as primitive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • History
  • Teaching
  • Peoples

• In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Action
  • Primitive
  • Foresight

• 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.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshipping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today's Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals.

  

  George Lincoln Rockwell
  • Pride
  • Hatred
  • Righteous

• 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.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Morality

• A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Culture
  • Car
  • Realizing

• 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.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Unity

• I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Expression

• The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Primitive

• But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Improvement
  • Ignorant
  • Stereotype

• 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.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Slave
  • Instruments
  • Chapters

• Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Language
  • Genuine
  • Primitive

• I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Singers
  • Primitive
  • Infantile

• Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Men
  • Week
  • Able

• A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Miles
  • Airports
  • Railroads

• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  

  Diego Rivera
  • World
  • Art
  • Tree

• Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

  

  William Law
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Ignorance

• Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Book
  • Wise
  • Half

• When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • Development
  • Code
  • Spontaneous

• Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Religion

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