It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so….

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about..

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius….

It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral ….

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity..

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

For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of a….

How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new..

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures..

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions..

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 ….

What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the….

Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself..

The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first pr….

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, ta….

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself..

At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind. This belief was twi….

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world..

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living..

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….

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely p….