Activity Quote by Boris Sidis Download Open image “Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.” — Boris Sidis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Aim Identity Life Preservation Self Self preservation
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People people have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others” — Paul Isaacs Copy Share
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived. — Ron Smothermon Copy Share Image
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves,… — Oscar Wilde 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
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
