Paleolithic Quotes

#1. She--the unnamed lady--simply drew his hands to the Paleolithic places men always have grown tumid from feeling, like the outward cradle of the hips within which a fetus will reside and her breasts that will nourish it, once born.

Edward Hoagland

#2. We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

E. O. Wilson

#3. What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

Dave Barry

#4. The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types.

Raymond Cattell

#5. The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

E. O. Wilson

#6. This cave within a cave, this paleolithic pussy, this decent into the deepest dark of fuck.

Tom Robbins

#7. Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

Terence McKenna

#8. Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

Edward Abbey

#9. When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important transitions actually went. Often, however, that isn't so. There are many facts about human life in the Paleolithic we're never likely to know.

Philip Kitcher

#10. If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

Gregory Colbert

#11. Paleolithic humans migrated often, and, like my teenagers, they followed the food.

Leonard Mlodinow

#12. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

Kim Stanley Robinson

#13. I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

Hill Harper

#14. Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

Walt Whitman

#15. Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

Dan Simmons

#16. What inspired me to work so hard and to maintain my determination was seeing my mother. She was an immigrant and was struggling in America to make it by; that inspired me to work hard.

Michelle Phan

#17. Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

Byron Katie

#18. I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.

Ronnie Apteker

#19. Either way, everything will be fine.

Tina Fey