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The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance…

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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…
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner…
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life…
Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least…
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for…
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or…
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the…
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems…
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…
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and…
Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were…

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The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them… — Wilhelm Wundt
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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. — Stephane Mallarme
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