Wilhelm Wundt Quotes

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

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

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

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

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

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