James Mark Baldwin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Modification #Machinery #Heredity
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Data #Problem #Term
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

#Order #Soul #Important
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Psychology #Pseudo #Periods
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Plato #Ideas #Unions
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Mind #Matter #Firsts
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Self #Two #Consciousness
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Psychology #Mind
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

#Self #Psychology #Development
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Mind #Periods #Infancy
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

#Art #Self #Use
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Mean #Thinking #Savages
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Ideas #Feelings #Balance
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.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Race #Progress #Remember
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Illumination #Two #Germany

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