James Mark Baldwin Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By James Mark Baldwin
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. — James Mark Baldwin
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. — James Mark Baldwin
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. — James Mark Baldwin
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. — James Mark Baldwin
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem. — James Mark Baldwin
3. It has been found that young animals, birds, etc., depend upon the example and instruction of adults for the first performance of many actions that seem to be instinctive. This dependence may exist even in cases in which there is yet a congenital tendency to perform the action. Many birds, for example, have a general instinct to build a nest; but in many cases, if put in artificial circumstances, they build imperfect nests. Birds also have an instinct to make vocal calls; but if kept from birth out of hearing of the peculiar notes of their species, they come to make cries of a different sort, or learn to make the notes of some other species with which they are thrown. 4. — James Mark Baldwin
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. — James Mark Baldwin
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. — James Mark Baldwin
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. — 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. — James Mark Baldwin
The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other. — James Mark Baldwin
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. — James Mark Baldwin
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time. — 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. — 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. — James Mark Baldwin