"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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Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

James Mark Baldwin

#Self Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Development Quotes

“Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.”
“Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked] "Yeah." "Why?" he asked. The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow.”
“I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.”
“While it costs us a lot to adopt children, it cost God the blood of His own Son.”
“..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.”
“Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.”

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