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

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Source : Boris Sidis (1907). “Studies in Psychopathology”

Boris Sidis

#Consciousness Quotes #Unification Quotes #Vary Quotes

“When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else...Their purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible.”
“You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.”

Source : Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.122, Hachette UK
“Those who complain most are most to be complained of.”
“Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.”
“My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.”
“The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?”
“No enterprise can exist for itself alone.”

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