Wilhelm Wundt Quotes

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• ...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient…
• 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…
• From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as…
• Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this…
• The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life…
• Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied…
• Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient…
• Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and…
• Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.
• Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in…
• In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements…
• Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they…
• Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost…
• On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are…
• Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
• Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.
• Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental…
• Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the…
• Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the…
• Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer…

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