The women of this century are neither idle nor indifferent. They are working with might and main to mitigate the evils which stare... them in the face on every side, but much of their work is without knowledge. It is aimed at the effects, not the cause; it is plucking the spoiled fruit; it is lopping off the poisonous branches of the deadly upas tree, which but makes the root more vigorous in sending out new shoots in every direction. A right understanding of physiological law teaches us that the cause must be removed; the tree must be girdled; the tap-root must be severed. The tap-root of our social upas lies deep down at the very foundations of society. It is woman's dependence. It is woman's subjection. Hence, the first and only efficient work must be to emancipate woman from her enslavement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no doubt that the practice is a means of suppressing and controlling the sexual behaviour of women. Female circumcision i...s a physiological chastity belt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whethe...r so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process ...known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel like a white granular mass of amorphous crystals--my formula appears to be isomeric with Spasmotoxin. My aurochloride preci...pitates into beautiful prismatic needles. My Platinochloride develops octohedron crystals,--with a fine blue florescence. My physiological action is not indifferent. One millionth of a grain injected under the skin of a frog produced instantaneous death accompanied by an orange blossom odor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... that's what living happens to be ... the physiological denial of reverence and good manners and Christianity.... At your age o...ne's quite old enough to know what the essence of life really is. Shamelessness, that's all; pure shamelessness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sex can be defined fairly adequately in physiological terms as consisting of the building up of bodily tensions and their release.... Eros, in contrast, is the experiencing of the personal intentions and meaning of the act. Whereas sex is a rhythm of stimulus and response, eros is a state of being. The pleasure of sex is described by Freud and others as the reduction of tension; in eros, on the contrary, we wish not to be released from the excitement but rather to hang on to it, to bask in it, and even to increase it. The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The entire construct of the "medical model" of "mental illness"Mwhat is it but an analogy? Between physical medicine and psychiatr...y: the mind is said to be subject to disease in the same manner as the body. But whereas in physical medicine there are verifiable physiological proofs--in damaged or affected tissue, bacteria, inflammation, cellular irregularity--in mental illness alleged socially unacceptable behavior is taken as a symptom, even as proof, of pathology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable...: rapture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »