Primitive
Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.
Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.
Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar.
An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.
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Primitive Quotations
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardner
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Jean Baudrillard
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
Mark Rothko
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Paul Cezanne
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer
Primitive Translations
primitive in Afrikaans is primitief
primitive in Dutch is primitief
primitive in French is primitif
primitive in German is primitive, primitiv
primitive in Italian is primitivo
primitive in Portuguese is primitivo
primitive in Swedish is ursprunglig, enkel, primitiv
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