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“The pathetic side of it is that these performers, themselves not realizing the harmfulness of the situation, often pretend, or genuinely believe, they are helping mankind by preaching some metaphysical ‘morals’. What they produce is a disorganization of the survival-working of the human system, particularly if they train the structurally undeveloped nervous system of children to delusional evaluations”

“Its members do their best, better than they know, to keep mankind un-sane in flights from ‘reality’, instead of helping to reorganize the horrible ‘realities’, all of our own making, into realities less painful. The comparatively few psychiatrists are naturally not a match for such vast numbers of well organized men and women who, in their blissful ignorance, work in the opposite direction”

“We all know in practice about a ‘sensation’, and a ‘mental picture’ or ‘idea’. As ‘sensations’ were often very deceptive and, therefore, did not always lead to survival, a nervous system which somehow retained vestiges, or ‘memories’, of former ‘sensations’ and could recombine them, shift them., proved of higher survival value”

“When we say ‘our rulers’, we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. There is no escape from the fact that they do, and that they always will, rule mankind, because we constitute a symbolic class of life, and we cannot cease from being so, except by regressing to the animal level.”

“it seems never to have occurred to the ‘behaviourists’ that mathematics and ‘insanity’ are very characteristic forms of human behaviour.”

“That ‘linguists’, ‘psychologists’, ‘logicians’., were, and usually are, very innocent of mathematics, a type of language of the greatest simplicity and perfection, with a clear-cut structure, similar to the structure of the world, Seems to be responsible for this helplessness. Without a study of mathematics, the adjustment of structure seems impossible.”

To learn Non-A should be a requirement in elementary schools.