Hermann Ebbinghaus

Quotes

• “What is true is alas not new, the new not true.”
• “Language is a system of conventional signs that can be voluntarily produced at any time.”
• “Mental states of every kind — sensations, feelings, images— which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it — have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Although the inwardly - turned look may no longer be able to find them, nevertheless they have not been utterly destroyed and annulled, but in a certain manner they, continue to exist, stored up to speak, in the memory.”
• “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”
• “A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”
• “The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1850-01-24 ) 24 January 1850, Barmen , Rhine Province , Kingdom of Prussia

Died

26 February 1909 (1909-02-26) (aged 59), Halle , German Empire

Known for

Serial position effect

Fields

Psychology

Institutions

University of Berlin , University of Breslau , University of Halle

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