We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but... by Wilhelm Wundt | We Heart Quotes

Thought

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

- Wilhelm Wundt

Other quotes by Wilhelm Wundt

Science

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

Consciousness

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

Mind Life

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

Discrimination World

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

Present

Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

- Wilhelm Wundt

Character Now

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

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