19 Quotes by James Mark Baldwin

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

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.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

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.

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