James Mark Baldwin Quotes

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

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 with reason or the soul.

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

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

James Mark Baldwin
For the truly scientific man, the hypothesis is destined solely to enable him to get the facts of nature in some definite order, an order which shall make apparent their connection with the great order and harmony which is believed to be present in the universe.

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

James Mark Baldwin
It can be stated without fear of refutation that every physiological investigation shows with accumulating emphasis that the manifestations of living matter are not explicable with only the forces of dead matter, and the more profound the knowledge of the investigator the more certain is the testimony that the life energy is not a mere name.

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
The method of modern science is social in respect to the solidarity of its efforts. The scientific world is like a colony of insects, in that the individual strives to produce that which he himself cannot hope to enjoy. One generation collects premises in order that a distant generation may discover what they mean.

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

James Mark Baldwin
If the working hypothesis fails in any essential particular he [the scientist] is ready to modify or discard it. For the truly inspired investigator, one undoubted fact weighs more in the balance than a thousand theories.

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

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

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; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James Mark Baldwin