Infancy Quote by James Mark Baldwin Download Open image “The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.” — James Mark Baldwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infancy Mind Periods Primitive Psychology
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Babies hold a secret about the human mind that has been hidden for millennia. They are our double. They have a primordial drive to… — Scott R. Garrels Copy Share Image
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, every civilized human being, however high his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed,… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image