Psychology on Simposeum

27 thinkers, each answering from their own writing with a citation to the page.

• Alfred Adler — 1870-1937 · To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest.
• James Mark Baldwin — 1861-1934 · The self is realized by taking in 'persons' from over against it; the ego and the alter are born together.
• Alfred Binet — 1857-1911 · Intelligence is not a fixed quantity; we must protest against this brutal pessimism.
• Mary Whiton Calkins — 1863-1930 · There is no consciousness that is not the consciousness of a self.
• Jean-Martin Charcot — 1825-1893 · Theory is good; but it does not prevent things from existing.
• Hermann Ebbinghaus — 1850-1909 · Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
• Sigmund Freud — 1856-1939 · The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious.
• Francis Galton — 1822-1911 · Whenever you can, count.
• G. Stanley Hall — 1844-1924 · The child is father of the man, and the race is the ancestor of the child.
• Pierre Janet — 1859-1947 · Hysteria is a malady of the personal synthesis — a narrowing of the field of consciousness.
• Carl Jung — 1875-1961 · In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
• Wolfgang Köhler — 1887-1967 · The whole is something else than the sum of its parts.
• Emil Kraepelin — 1856-1926 · The course of a disease is its truest name.
• Gustave Le Bon — 1841-1931 · The age we are about to enter will in truth be the era of crowds.
• C. Lloyd Morgan — 1852-1936 · In no case is an action to be interpreted as the outcome of a higher faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
• William McDougall — 1871-1938 · The human mind has certain innate tendencies which are the essential springs of all thought and action.
• Hugo Münsterberg — 1863-1916 · The time is ripe to carry the results of the laboratory into the practical life of the world.
• Ivan Pavlov — 1849-1936 · The conditioned reflex opened the way to an objective study of the highest nervous activity.
• Jean Piaget — 1896-1980 · To understand is to invent.
• Théodule Ribot — 1839-1916 · The dissolution of the mind follows, in inverse order, the course of its development.
• Charles Spearman — 1863-1945 · Every normal man, woman, and child is a genius at something.
• James Sully — 1842-1923 · The study of illusion has a peculiar value: it shows us the working of the mind by the light of its errors.
• Edward L. Thorndike — 1874-1949 · Whatever exists at all exists in some amount.
• Edward Bradford Titchener — 1867-1927 · The task of psychology is to analyse mind into its simplest components — and there is no experience which cannot be so analysed.
• Margaret Floy Washburn — 1871-1939 · All the processes of consciousness have their roots in movement.
• John B. Watson — 1878-1958 · Give me a dozen healthy infants and my own specified world to bring them up in, and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist.
• Wilhelm Wundt — 1832-1920 · Mental life is a process of continuous creative synthesis, never the mere sum of its elements.