Wilhelm Wundt: Consciousness

Wilhelm Wundt was German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor. Explore interesting quotes on consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt: 12 quotes0 likes

“We call that psychical process, which is operative in the clear perception of a narrow region of the content of consciousness, attention.”

Source: An Introduction to Psychology (1912), p. 16

“If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.”

Source: An Introduction to Psychology (1912), p. 122

“The whole task of psychology can therefore be summed up in these two problems : (1) What are the elements of consciousness? (2) What combinations do these elements undergo and what laws govern these combinations?”

Source: An Introduction to Psychology (1912), p. 44; Cited in: Stephen Kosslyn. Image and Mind. 1980, p. 438