What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

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.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.