List Of Primitive Man Quotes

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.

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.

Most Of The Vices And Mortal Sins Condemned Today Correspond To Inclinations That Were Purely Adaptive Or At Least Harmless In Primitive Man

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.

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.

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.

The Consideration Of Human Suffering Is Not One Which Enters Into The Calculations Of Primitive Man.

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.

By Nature, By Necessity Itself, [primitive Man] Is Encyclopedic, While Civilized Man Finds Himself Confined In The Infinitely Small Regions Of Specialization.

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.