James Mark Baldwin Quotes

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

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

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

History is not everything, but it is the starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.