Primal Self Quotes

Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.