Boris Sidis quotes
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“The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”
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“Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
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“Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
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“Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1913). “The Psychology of Laughter”
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“Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.”
-- Boris SidisSource : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.
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“The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.”
-- Boris SidisSource : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.
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“The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.”
-- Boris SidisSource : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 275), 1922.
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“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.”
-- Boris SidisSource : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.
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“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”
-- Boris SidisSource : "The Source and Aim of Human Progress". Book by Boris Sidis, 1919.
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“The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
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“Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
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“Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1907). “Studies in Psychopathology”
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“The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1917). “Philistine and Genius”
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“The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905). “Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality”
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“The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905). “Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality”
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“Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
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“Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
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“The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
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“The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.”
-- Boris SidisSource : "The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology" by Boris Sidis, (p. 98), 1914.
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“Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.”
-- Boris SidisSource : Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”
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