Wilhelm Wundt Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• 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”

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

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosophical, Reflection, Psychology

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Consciousness, Nervous, Process

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