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

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

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 b….

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems..

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form….

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

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 bet….

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very li….

The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental lif….

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 tha….

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 act….

Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensati….

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology..

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

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

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

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 ….

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 scien….

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….

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

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 fa….