Edward Titchener
British-American psychologist who brought structuralism to the US, focusing on conscious experience.
Most quoted
"The business of psychology is to analyze mental structure, to synthesize mental elements, and to explain mental processes."
— from An Outline of Psychology, 1896
"The psychologist must be a trained observer, capable of analyzing his own mental states without bias or preconception."
— from Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice, 1901
"The aim of psychology is to describe and explain the states of consciousness as they occur in the human mind."
— from An Outline of Psychology, 1896
All quotes by Edward Titchener (107)
Attention is the clearness of consciousness; it selects and intensifies.
The mind is a stream of elements, ever flowing and changing.
Psychology must be independent of philosophy; it stands on its own empirical ground.
We analyze consciousness into its parts to understand the whole.
The science of psychology is young, but its methods are rigorous and precise.
Sensations are the alphabet of the mind.
To know the mind, we must turn inward and observe without bias.
Psychology is not metaphysics; it is the study of immediate experience.
The correlation of mind and body is a problem for physiology, not psychology.
Every mental state must be reducible to its sensory components.
The experimental method is the scalpel of the psychologist.
Life's greatest puzzle is the nature of our inner world.
In the quiet of introspection, one finds the essence of existence.
The mind's depths reveal truths that words can scarcely capture.
Happiness lies in the pursuit of knowledge, not in its possession.
We are but fleeting observers in the vast theater of consciousness.
The soul's whisper is heard in moments of solitude.
True wisdom comes from dissecting one's own thoughts.
Life is a series of sensations, each building upon the last.
In the end, the mind seeks unity amid diversity.
Contemporaries of Edward Titchener
Other Psychologys born within 50 years of Edward Titchener (1867–1927).