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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Wilhelm Wundt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. Wilhelm Wundt Read Quote
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life. Wilhelm Wundt Read Quote
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. Wilhelm Wundt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Wilhelm Wundt Read Quote
