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Psychology Quotes by Wilhelm Wundt
- 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…
- Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations…
- The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
- The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
- 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…
- The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little…
- The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
- The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator…
- There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
- Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing more…
- We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At…
- We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
- The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
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