Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. — 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… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner… — 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… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in… — 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… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or… — 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… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex… — 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… — 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… — 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
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive… — 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
