Boris Sidis: Consciousness

Boris Sidis was American psychiatrist. Explore interesting quotes on consciousness.

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“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.”

Boris Sidis The Source and Aim of Human Progress

The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)

“Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.”

The Psychology of Suggestion: a Research into the Subconscious Nature of Man and Society (1889), p. 90

“A social aggregate which has chosen the fatal path of organic evolution must succumb to the same law of organic development to which all organisms are subject, namely greater and greater organization, increase of structure, greater differentiation, decrease of critical, personal, consciousness, loss of individual liberty, increased activity of the subconscious forces, falling into a state of somnambulism which can only be redeemed by revolution or by death.”

Boris Sidis The Source and Aim of Human Progress

The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)

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

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914), p. 117

“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.”

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914), p. 106