It is important to realize that determinism does not imply events occur in spite of our actions. Some events occur because we dete...rmine them. Determinism must not be confused with the doctrine of fatalism, which asserts that future events are entirely beyond our control. "It is all written in the stars," declares the fatalist. "What will be will be." The soldier who behaves recklessly on the battlefield in the face of a hail of bullets while thinking "if my number is on it, no precaution will avert death" is a fatalist. Some Oriental religions contain fatalist overtones, and many people are inclined to lapse into fatalism from time to time, especially as far as major world affairs are concerned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the wil...l, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here.... The cats particularly. They seem to know. You c...an fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, t...he real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas ... a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in explo...ring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable whe...n you become accustomed to living at others' expense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can ...be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism.... In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred... in the psychic landscape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom..., justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiated ...as to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »