#primitive

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. ↗

— Robert Quine

#many #playing #primitive #punk #standards

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#back #behavior #contradiction #crazy #every

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a common experience with all of us. And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator. And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive. ↗

— Jack London

#duality #foolishness #modern #primitive #self

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#emotional #more #much #murky #observation

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable. ↗

— Graham Greene

#primitive #travel #experience

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#characteristics #dog #many #primitive

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#honor #imperative #last #primitive #senate

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#art #kinship #primitive #profess #spiritual

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#inspiration #primitive #truth #courage