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"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
"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."
"On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects."
"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures."
"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."
"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
"From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time."
"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
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