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… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
