James Mark Baldwin Quotes
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Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
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In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
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The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.
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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
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Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
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The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
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Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
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Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
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The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
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Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
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In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
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The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
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After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
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