Quotes by Wilhelm Wundt

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence. (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. (Wilhelm Wundt)

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. (Wilhelm Wundt)

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. (Wilhelm Wundt)

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)

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question. (Wilhelm Wundt)

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)

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology. (Wilhelm Wundt)

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. (Wilhelm Wundt)

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)