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1. "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

2. "On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question." ~ Wilhelm Wundt

3. "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

4. "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

5. "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

6. "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

7. "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

8. "Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life." ~ Wilhelm Wundt

9. "The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large." ~ Wilhelm Wundt

10. "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

11. "Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology." ~ Wilhelm Wundt

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

13. "The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis." ~ Wilhelm Wundt

14. "Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny." ~ Wilhelm Wundt

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