Hermann Ebbinghaus: Quotes about nature

Hermann Ebbinghaus was German psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on nature.
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“Natural science served as - if we overlook the hasty identification of mind and matter which had its origin in natural science - as a shining and fruitful example to psychology.”

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Source: Psychology: An elementary textbook, 1908, p. 6; Partly cited in: Peter Ashworth, ‎Man Cheung Chung (2007) Phenomenology and Psychological Science, p. 54.

Nature , Science

“The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study' governs his combinations of them”

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 3

Nature , Study , Singing

“Popular thought, supported by desires common to all human beings, readily accepts the view that mind is essentially different from matter, that its laws are in every respect different from the laws of material nature, and that the brain, being a part of the material nature, is simply the special tool used by the mind in its intercourse with nature.”

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Source: Psychology: An elementary textbook, 1908, p. 44

Law , Support , Nature , Parting