Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct. — 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
The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
