Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology German 1832 – 1920 100 quotes

Often considered the 'father of psychology,' who established the first formal psychology laboratory in Leipzig, marking the beginning of modern experimental psychology.

Quotes by Wilhelm Wundt

The whole of psychology is built upon the analysis of consciousness.

Book 1896

Emotions are complex states of feeling with intellectual and physical elements.

Book 1905

The method of introspection is the fundamental method of psychology.

Book 1879

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society.

Book 1897

The principles of psychology are as immutable as those of physics.

Book 1900

Consciousness is a continuous process, not a series of discrete states.

Book 1912

The soul is not a substance, but a function of the body.

Book 1881

Perception is the interpretation of sensation.

Book 1894

The experimental method is the only way to establish causal relations in psychology.

Book 1908

Will is the directive force of attention.

Book 1903

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain from judging.

Book 1911

Psychology must be based on experiment and observation.

Book 1874

The apperception mass determines what new experiences mean to us.

Book 1897

Feeling is the raw material of emotion.

Book 1906

The history of psychology is the history of the struggle for objectivity.

Book 1913

In the laboratory, we dissect the mind as the physiologist dissects the body.

Speech 1880

Life's meaning lies in the pursuit of knowledge.

Letter 1909

The experimental psychologist must be both philosopher and natural scientist.

Book 1895

Attention is the clearness of consciousness.

Book 1901

The unconscious is a myth; all is conscious in some degree.

Book 1910