Primordial Quotes

“In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out.”
― Svante Arrhenius, Theories Of Solutions

“The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present day occur in our rivers, pools, and lakes. The incontrovertible fact that each human individual develops from an egg, which, in common with those of all animals, is a simple cell, most clearly proves that the most remote ancestors of man were primordial animals of this sort, of a form equivalent to a simple cell. When, therefore, the theory of the animal descent of man is condemned as a 'horrible, shocking, and immoral' doctrine, tho unalterable fact, which can be proved at any moment under the microscope, that the human egg is a simple cell, which is in no way different to those of other mammals, must equally be pronounced 'horrible, shocking, and immoral.”
― Ernst Haeckel, The History Of Creation V2: Or The Development Of The Earth And Its Inhabitants By The Action Of Natural Causes

“A creative design to everything demands a Time Keeper to exist. It was born out from the womb of primordial time!”
― Vishwanath S J

“The nose is idiosyncratically central not only to our sense of smell but to our sense of who we are , in our most primal appetites. For the idea of appetite pertains to food as well as to all the sensual and spiritual experiences that drive us, give us pleasure, make us feel more alive in the moment. Scent is a portal to these basic human appetites—for the far-off, the familiar, the transcendent, the strange, and the beautiful—that have motivated us since the origins of our species.”
― Mandy Aftel, Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent

“But we must not let our judgment about primitive men be influenced too far by the analogy with neurotics. Differences must also be taken into account. Of course the sharp division between thinking and doing as we draw it does not exist either with savages or with neurotics. But the neurotic is above all inhibited in his actions; with him the thought is a complete substitute for the dead. Primitive man is not inhabited, the thought is directly converted into the deed, the deed is for him so to speak rather a substitute for the thought, and for that reason I think we may well assume in the case we are discussing, though without vouching for the absolute certainty to the decision, that "in the beginning was the deed.”
― Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo

“Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.”
― Susan Block, The Bonobo Way

“Destination is a primordial intention born in the mind of the creator that promoted him to create a certain object of inanimate nature, animate nature and the highest creature, a human being”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The thought brought a ghost of a smile to his lips. Winter evoked primordial feelings of seeking shelter and fire. The realization of the unforgiving side of mother nature wrapping icy fingers into one’s soul.”
― Jaime Allison Parker, River at the World's Dawn

“Who was to say where the river ended and the sea began, water flowed into itself and the sweet became the salty, where the brine and the riverine coagulated and became the ocean, primordial churn, from the beginning of time and earth and life."
– Kiran Manral, More Things in Heaven and Earth.”
― Kiran Manral, More Things in Heaven and Earth

“In Vedic traditions, Aum/Om is believed to be the primordial sound wave.”
― Ujjwal Arora, Healing Sole to Soul

“The primordial religion or the Vedic cult - a human body and the manifestation of God within it. How does it happen? It occurs spontaneously. For this only a human body is necessary and that should be flawless. Where ever it is available on earth, this will manifest,”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“The female wasn't complicated, it was the male who was complicated. The female was simple, elemental, direct, primordial.”
― Ann Petry, The Narrows