Author: James Mark Baldwin

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- James Mark Baldwin

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