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

Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology, Doe, Substance

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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

Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology, Mind, Subjectivity

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

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Psychology, Firsts, Physiological

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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 between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

Wilhelm Wundt

Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

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Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Mind, Important

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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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Men, Thinking, Psychology

Wilhelm Wundt (2014). “Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology (Psychology Revivals)”, p.363, Routledge

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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 historical sciences, in order to obtain an understanding for the more highly developed metal processes.

Wilhelm Wundt

Order, Psychology, Understanding

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

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Views, Psychology, Heuristics

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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

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Time, Psychology, Information

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

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Psychology, Failing, Psychological

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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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 times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.

Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology, Energy, Ordinary

Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Mind, Hypothesis

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

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Philosophical, Reflection, Psychology

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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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.

Wilhelm Wundt

Character, Numbers, Movement

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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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.

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Life, Psychology, Fields

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

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Attitude, Philosophy, Medicine

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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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 than the subjective reproduction of the regularity according to the law of natural phenomena. On the other hand, this reproduction is only possible by means of the will that controls the concatenation of ideas.

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Mean, Men, Thinking

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1912). “An Introduction to Psychology”

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Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

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Consciousness, Nervous, Process

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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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Psychology, Problem, Metaphysical

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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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 life.

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Life, Hands, Psychology

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life of animals shows itself to be throughout, in its elements and in the general laws governing the combination of the elements, the same as the mental life of man.

Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Animal, Men

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1907). “Outlines of Psychology”

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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 from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.

Wilhelm Wundt

Hands, Giving, Psychology

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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 joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.

Wilhelm Wundt

Law, Psychology, Quality

Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.78, Read Books Ltd

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Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made. It is obvious ... that nothing can be discovered in such experiments.

Wilhelm Wundt

Mean, Psychology, Would Be

Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.75, Read Books Ltd

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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.

Wilhelm Wundt

Life, Self, Names

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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Born: August 16, 1832
Died: August 31, 1920
Occupation: Psychologist
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