{"quotes":[{"text":"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["aboriginal-culture","ancient-culture","brainy","brainy-life-lessons","evolution","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-psychology","life","pearls-of-wisdom","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-psyche","primitive-religion","primitive-urges","religion-and-science","religious","social-psychology","truth","truth"],"id":60767,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Man’s earliest prereligious fear of the natural forces gradually became religious in nature and got personalized and spiritualized. Eventually he learnt to say 'God works in a mysterious way'.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["atheism","atheism","brainy","consciousness","god","god","human-nature","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-psyche","religion","religious-rituals","science-and-religion","science-of-mind","science","spirituality"],"id":76781,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"​Man created God due to his selfish desires.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["god","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-religion","religion","science-and-religion","theology"],"id":124077,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"After the dinosaurs, it is us the humans that have become the dominant species on planet earth. However, unlike the dinosaurs, we have become the rulers of this planet not by ferociousness, but by intelligence, even though we are no less ferociousness than them.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","consciousness","evolution","evolution-of-consciousness","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-psychology","human","human-behavior","human-development","human-mind","human-nature","humanism","humanity","humanity-and-society","intelligence","intelligence","intelligence","life","no-war","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-urges","science","truth","war","warfare"],"id":232942,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?","author":"Dan Barker","tags":["bible","primitive-men","religion","superstition"],"id":260833,"author_id":"Dan+Barker"},{"text":"A conscientious man, Muslim or otherwise, would never abuse his wife and then resort to the scripture to justify his actions. But a fundamentalist caveman would gloriously beat his wife whenever he likes and shamelessly quote from Quran to rationalize his monstrosity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["compassion","conscience","fundamentalism","inspirational","inspiring","love","motivational","muslim-women","muslims","philosophy","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","religion","truth","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":370773,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Primitive humans could not comprehend the vastness of infinity and eternity, so as a trick of self-preservation they came up with the perception of survival of the soul after death and its recurring incarnations.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["afterlife","afterlife","afterlife-speculation","consciousness","death","death","heaven-and-hell","heaven","life","life-after-death","neuropsychology","paradise","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-religion","reincarnation","reincarnation","rituals","rituals-and-religion","science-and-religion","soul","soul","truth"],"id":413941,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["developed","developed-man","humble","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","olive-branch","peace","peace","peace","primitive","primitive-men","sophisticated","sword","swords","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":453380,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["ancient-technology","angel","primitive-men","wilier-races"],"id":456274,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}