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
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
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.
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.