Hugo Munsterberg Quotes

Give to the child the truth, but that truth which makes life worth living, that truth which teaches him that life is a task and a duty, and that his true health and soundness and value will depend upon the energy with which he makes the world and his own body with its selfish desires subservient to unselfish ideals.

attained at various times very different degrees of importance.

Treatment of diseases by influence on the mind is as old as human history, but it has attained at various times very different degrees of importance.

The change from within is the only promise and the only hope.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

Whenever a great movement sweeps through the civilized world, it generally starts from the recognition of a great social wrong and from the enthusiasm for a thorough change.

Some sense and a great deal of nonsense is being written about Zen today, but this would neither surprise nor disturb the Zen man, who knows that both are closely related.

...young people know very little about themselves and their abilities. When the day comes on which they discover their real strong points and their weaknesses, it is often to late. They have usually been drawn into the current of a particular vocation, and have given too much energy to the preparation for a specific achievement to change the whole life-plan once more. The entire scheme of education gives to the individual little chance to find himself.