German Psychologist Quotes

Wilhelm Dilthey

Johann Friedrich Herbart

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hugo Münsterberg

Kurt Lewin

Gerd Gigerenzer

Eugen Drewermann

We no longer seek the cause of events in the nature of a single isolated object, but in the relationship between an object and its surroundings.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

Gerd Gigerenzer

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Personal causality, refers to instances in which p causes x intentionally. That is to say, the action is purposive.

The man of learning without imagination has feet but no wings.

Hugo Münsterberg

Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.

Eugen Drewermann

Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.

Mathematics, the priestess of definiteness and clearness.

Johann Friedrich Herbart

Reducing complexity by order formation is the number one skill needed by all leaders in the twenty-first century

Our own vitality as well as that of others frightens us, if it still manages to surface, we respond with rage and turn against our own freedom. It is vitality itself that we are opposing.

You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that he once admired and still admires what he scorns, that he once greedily desired what now disgusts him.

It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.