38 Quotes by 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 transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

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 facts of human life.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

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

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