Primitive Finite

Famous quotes containing the words primitive and/or finite:

“The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)

“Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)