Automatism Quotes
8 quotes by 7 authors
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What…
— Alfred Binet
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Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within…
— Bernard DeVoto
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
— William James
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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a…
— Lewis Mumford
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner…
— Andre Breton
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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process…
— Andre Breton
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Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less…
— Eric Hoffer
Who Wrote These Automatism Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 8 Automatism Quotes as follows: