The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. - Hermann Ebbinghaus
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ea… - Hermann Ebbinghaus
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ea…
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is,… - Hermann Ebbinghaus
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is,…
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true. - Hermann Ebbinghaus
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. - Hermann Ebbinghaus
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further trainin… - Hermann Ebbinghaus
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further trainin…
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, na… - Hermann Ebbinghaus
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, na…
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an ef… - Hermann Ebbinghaus
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an ef…
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other d… - Hermann Ebbinghaus
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other d…
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