Primitive Human Nature Quotes

#1. Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

Madame De Stael

#2. If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

Judith Martin

#5. Philanderers and swingers can see nothing beyond the needs of their genitals. Sexual craving is a part of our biology, but it is not who we are.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Use plot to buttress a story.

Gayle Lynds

#9. Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

Northrop Frye

#11. If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

Alexander Payne

#12. Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.

Elena Ferrante

#13. Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Denis Waitley

#14. An interesting fiction ... however paradoxical the assertion may appear ... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

James Fenimore Cooper

#15. In today's society, the animals known as Homo sapiens have become conditioned to elicit the same kind of fearful response whenever the bell of Islam is rung.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the forest, and were very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but two or three berries, which grew on the ground.

Jacob Grimm

#17. We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.

Abhijit Naskar