Boris Sidis Quotes

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

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.

The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

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.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

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.

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.

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

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.