Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the … - Boris Sidis - Quotesmemo.com

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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

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Boris Sidis

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.

Associate, Existence, Impulse, Instinct, Institutions, Self

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Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

Agency, Evil, Impending, Potent, Religious, Superstitions

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

Interrelation, Physiological, Process, Psychic, Psychics, Psychology

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

Away, Fire, Laughter, Like, Sky

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

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The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

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