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

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

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

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

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In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

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

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

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The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

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The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

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

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