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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… — George Gaylord Simpson
- Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at… — Alfred Binet
- We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory;… — Lewis Mumford
- Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton
- Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful… — Bernard DeVoto
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more… — William James
- Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — 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… — Eric Hoffer