Preface, p. xiii
World Brain (1938)
Context: There has been … an enormous waste of human mental and physical resources in premature revolutionary thrusts, ill-planned, dogmatic, essentially unscientific reconstructions and restorations of the social order, during the past hundred years. This was the inevitable first result of the discrediting of those old and superseded mental adaptations which were embodied in the institutions and education of the past. They discredited themselves and left the world full of problems.
Source: "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth," 1915, p. 96
Source: Psyche and Matter (1992), p. 208
Can Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis. page 132
“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
"The Source of Religion", International Socialist Review, Vol. 16, Iss. 12, Jun. 1916
Peace and reconciliation in the Egypt and Syria uprisings http://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com.
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Letter to (22 August 1774), as published in The Life of John Jay (1833) by William Jay, Vol. 2, p. 345.
1770s, Letter to Lindley Murray (1774)
Context: Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer. Yet so is the fact; and this fact points strongly to the necessity of our being healed, or restored, or regenerated by a power more energetic than any of those which properly belong to the human mind.
We perceive that a great breach has been made in the moral and physical systems by the introduction of moral and physical evil; how or why, we know not; so, however, it is, and it certainly seems proper that this breach should be closed and order restored. For this purpose only one adequate plan has ever appeared in the world, and that is the Christian dispensation. In this plan I have full faith. Man, in his present state, appears to be a degraded creature; his best gold is mixed with dross, and his best motives are very far from being pure and free from earth and impurity.
“Socialism, is in short a manifestation of mental illness or major character deficiency.”
"Are Socialists Psychos?" https://www.trevorloudon.com/2006/12/are-socialists-psychos/
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Context: It is only in the last five hundred years that music has become a spectator activity—the thought of a musical concert in which a class of "experts" performed for an appreciative audience was virtually unkown throughout our history as a species. And it has only been in the last hundred years or so that the ties between musical sound and human movement have been minimized.
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”
