Automatism Quotes

8 quotes by 7 authors

• 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
• 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
• Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within… — Bernard DeVoto
• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details… — William James
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Automatism Quotes by Andre Breton
• 1 Automatism Quote by George Gaylord Simpson
• 1 Automatism Quote by Alfred Binet
• 1 Automatism Quote by Bernard DeVoto
• 1 Automatism Quote by William James
• 1 Automatism Quote by Lewis Mumford
• 1 Automatism Quote by Eric Hoffer