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.

- Boris Sidis

If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscio…

- Boris Sidis

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

- Boris Sidis

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communit…

- Boris Sidis

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

- Boris Sidis

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

- Boris Sidis

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

- Boris Sidis

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 last…

- Boris Sidis

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 anoth…

- Boris Sidis