Boris Sidis: Individual

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

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

Source: Multiple Personality: an Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904), p. 26

“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)

“Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.”

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914), p. 39

“The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.”

Source: Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922), p. 275

“Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.”

Boris Sidis The Source and Aim of Human Progress

The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)

“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)

“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.”

Boris Sidis The Source and Aim of Human Progress

The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)

“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.”

Source: Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922), p. 20