Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of t…

- Wilhelm Wundt

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…

- Wilhelm Wundt

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 …

- Wilhelm Wundt

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

- Wilhelm Wundt

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

- 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

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

- Wilhelm Wundt

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…

- Wilhelm Wundt

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…

- Wilhelm Wundt