Max Wertheimer

Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the…

— Max Wertheimer

Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the…

— Max Wertheimer

Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly…

— Max Wertheimer

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

The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot…

— Max Wertheimer

Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total…

— Max Wertheimer

"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether…

— Max Wertheimer

Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.

— Max Wertheimer

There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt…

— Max Wertheimer

It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach…

— Max Wertheimer

Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when…

— Max Wertheimer