Gestalt Theory Quotes
- Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these… — Kurt Lewin
- 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
- 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
- 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