Boris Sidis Quotes

It is not the citizen, or a taxpayer, or voter, or office-holder, but the cultivated, free individual who is the true aim of all social progress.

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.

If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.