Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. Lionel Trilling
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. Ayn Rand
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. Wilhelm Ostwald
Time is the primitive form of the stream of consciousness. Hermann Weyl
Food is the most primitive form of comfort. Sheilah Graham
Time is the primitive form of the stream of consciousness. ...If we project ourselves outside the stream of consciousness and represent its content as an object, it becomes an event happening in time, the separate stages of which stand to one another in the relations of earlier and later. Hermann Weyl