Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry. — David Lauren Copy Share Image
“In the Gestalt theory of perception this is known as the figure/ground relationship. This theory asserts, in brief, that no figure is… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
“In other words, the ground allows the figure to emerge. In this Gestalt, the figure can only be a figure by virtue… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
“My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech.… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both organismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in anger, remember yourself. In that very remembering the focus changes, the gestalt changes. You become more and more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in my work toward minimalism, in terms of stripping away the unnecessary. I am seeking a tightly ordered… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer.… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
“To live in the way of the Gestalt: 1. Live now. Concern yourself with the present before the past or the future.… — Claudio Naranjo Copy Share Image
“Reich’s genius birthed tools we’ve yet to fully grasp: his character armor and muscular armoring concepts seeded ego psychology, body psychotherapy, Gestalt… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new… — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't… — Dick York Copy Share Image
“ Gestalt Prayer I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spirit is love, spirit is connection, inclusive, and that's what I'm interested in, and that's what moved me. That's what I got… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
“... a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called ‘tree’.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
