Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether … - Wilhelm Wundt

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God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

Wilhelm Wundt

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.

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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 between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

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

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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 back as the beginnings of life at large.

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

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

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