"The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks'……" — Wilhelm Wundt
"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 and very seldom."
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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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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of…
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But…
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A longsuffering person will endure where others give up. He always thinks about how God has been longsuffering toward him,…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word,…
— Sophocles
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Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the…
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
— William Rounseville Alger
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Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly…
— Jet Black
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The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix
— Michael Frost
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I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about…
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