Wilhelm Wundt

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

— Wilhelm Wundt

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in…

— Wilhelm Wundt

In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or…

— Wilhelm Wundt

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex…

— Wilhelm Wundt

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

— Wilhelm Wundt

Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were…

— Wilhelm Wundt

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive…

— Wilhelm Wundt