Century Quote by James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— 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

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter…

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each…

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— 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

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;…

— James Mark Baldwin