In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions,… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object...… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
