Gestalt Quotes

17 quotes by 13 authors

Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang KÃ¶hler. I need not emphasize my debts to these… — Kurt Lewin
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues. — Charlotte Bunch
The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from… — Max Wertheimer
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears,… — Rajneesh
Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits,… — Rajneesh
There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the… — Max Wertheimer
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'designâ€™. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I… — Dieter Rams
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able… — Adam Parfrey
There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to… — Max Wertheimer
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 I followed the… — Calvin Trillin
I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they… — Dick York
My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry. — David Lauren
Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not… — John Paul Caponigro
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition… — Paul Rand
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death.… — Mary Midgley
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. — May Sarton
Whenever you are in anger, remember yourself. In that very remembering the focus changes, the gestalt changes. You become more and more centred. Anger remains… — Rajneesh

Who Wrote These Gestalt Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 17 Gestalt Quotes as follows: