James Mark Baldwin

“The individual is a social outcome, not a social unit.”

“Thought is the rehearsal of action.”

“The progress of society is a progress in the discovery of the means of satisfying the wants of the individual.”

“We are what we imitate.”

“Imitation is a prime means of social heredity.”

“All reflective thought is a dialogue.”

“The child's personality is a bipolar one, with the self and the other-person as its two poles.”

“A new-born babe has no self; he is a mass of bland neutral feeling.”

“The self is a gradually attained product of social interaction.”

“The sense of self is a social product.”

“The mind grows by the appropriation of the social heritage.”

“The history of philosophy is the history of the discovery of the self.”

“Invention is the prime function of the active and selective consciousness.”

“The ethical self is the social self.”

“Art is the expression of the ideal.”

“Morality is a matter of social prescription and habit.”