19 Quotes by 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.

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

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.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

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.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.