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"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."
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"The mind of a baby is a tabula rasa, society writes information on his mind."
"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."
"When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth."
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"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."
"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas."
"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
"The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other."
"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 fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
"All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge."
"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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