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Quotes from The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology — Boris Sidis

d. 1923 Ukraine

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Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

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

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

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

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

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

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

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.

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

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.

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Boris Sidis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.