Jean Piaget Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.”

“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.”

“Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.”

“This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.”

“I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.”

“In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.”

“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.”

“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.”