Wilhelm Wundt

Psychologist

1832-08-16

Quotes by Wilhelm Wundt

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

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• In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

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• 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.

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

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