James Mark Baldwin quotes

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. (James Mark Baldwin)
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. View quote
James Mark Baldwin
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. View quote
James Mark Baldwin
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. View quote
James Mark Baldwin
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. View quote
James Mark Baldwin
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. View quote
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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem. View quote
James Mark Baldwin
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. View quote
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Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. View quote
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In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. View quote
James Mark Baldwin
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. (James Mark Baldwin)
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. View quote
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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. View quote
James Mark Baldwin
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. View quote
James Mark Baldwin

James Mark Baldwin

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Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: January 12, 1861
Died: November 8, 1934
Quotes count: 14