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

James Mark Baldwin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

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

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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self;…

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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens…

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“Religion of dualism causes harm to human beings. He falls and cannot proceed towards divinity and at the same time causes harm to the…

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An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being…

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A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that…

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We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to…

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“Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind and matter, and conflict between the benevolent and the malevolent forces. Opposition in the universe creates a dynamic living universe composed of good and evil, body and soul. Human thoughts and feelings are the communal products of the…

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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many…

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When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now…

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All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

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Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy, that which today is considered true, may tomorrow be proved to be false. No one can guarantee a philosophy's validity. Because of this, any intellectual way of seeing whatever is always partial and relative. The fact is that…

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