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If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.

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Psychoanalysis is a sort of individual history, an embryology of the personality.

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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

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I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

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Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

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How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new...

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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

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Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

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If only we could know what was going on in a baby's mind while observing him in action we could certainly understand everything there is to psychology.

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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

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The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

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