There were hardly any coloured people in the town I grew up in – how am I to know?’ And she hated herself for her next question, but she could not hold it back: ‘Don’t you think I deserve some credit, for trying to be human, for not being a part of all that, for – walking out?

— James Baldwin

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

— James Baldwin

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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.

— James Baldwin

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

— James Baldwin

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

— James Baldwin

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

— James Baldwin

All art is a kind of confession.

— James Baldwin

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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.

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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.

— James Mark Baldwin

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

— James Mark Baldwin

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