James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
James A. "Jim" Baldwinwas an American football player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State College—now the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina—now Duke University, Lehigh University, and Wake Forest University, compiling a career college football record of 41–32–14. Baldwin was also the head basketball coach at the same five schools, amassing a career college basketball...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 August 1924
CountryUnited States of America
James A. Baldwin quotes about
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.