"Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed……" — Wilhelm Wundt
"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 all such fanciful reference."
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Wilhelm Wundt
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35 Quotes by Wilhelm Wundt
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...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There…
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In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to…
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From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the…
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Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having…
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of…
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Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes…
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Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set…
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Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding…
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Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.
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Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question…
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In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of…
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Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when…
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