Able Quote by Wilhelm Wundt

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

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

— Wilhelm Wundt

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

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

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

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

— Wilhelm Wundt

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

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

— Wilhelm Wundt

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

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

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

— Wilhelm Wundt

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