Primitive Mind Quotes

#1. There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.

Anthony Marais

#2. To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

Bertrand Russell

#3. The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Sigmund Freud

#4. The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

Don DeLillo

#5. Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

Carl Jung

#6. ...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs - a touch of romance.

Bruce Bairnsfather

#7. The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.

Danielle Rohr

#8. Superstition in wartime takes a more powerful hold on the mind. One sees omens in everything. One is returned to a more primitive view of the world and its sign language.

Glenn Haybittle

#9. The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

James Mark Baldwin

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

Abhijit Naskar

#11. Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

Thomas Mann

#12. The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events

Edward Gibbon

#13. Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

Dion Fortune

#14. Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

Jean Dubuffet

#15. The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Edward Dahlberg

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

Dan Brown

#20. Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best. Then, calmly, almost as if it were a recognised form of verbal punctuation, she took aim with the needler and gutted a rat which had dared to stray into the corridor.

Alastair Reynolds

#21. The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get ...

G. E. M. Anscombe

#22. It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

James Henry Breasted

#23. I once visited a village of primitive people.
At village, I felt time and life moved slower.

Toba Beta

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Abhijit Naskar

#27. What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind.

Charles C. Abbott