Boris Sidis Quotes

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.
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Able Life Long Tendency
The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
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Evil Men Principles
Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.
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Aim Preservation Self
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
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Process Psychics Psychology
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.
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Facts Psychology World
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
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Courses Evolution Integration
Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.
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Psychics Psychology Unity
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
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Amount Consciousness Unification
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.
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Epidemics Fall Progress
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
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Hypothesis Psycho Psychology
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.
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Individual Psychics Psychology
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, – the fear instinct.
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Instinct Preservation Self
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
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Description Phenomena Relation Science

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