"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."

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Source : Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”

Boris Sidis

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“Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.”
“Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.”

Source : Totaram Sanadhya, John Dunham Kelly, Uttra Kumari Singh (1991). “My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line”
“There's a reason you never see anyone's house with a Beware of Cat sign. Because they're not even worth mentioning.”
“I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.”
“There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.”
“The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International
“What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.”
“You should stop asking your politicians how they're gonna do it.”

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