Gestalt Theory Quotes by Max Wertheimer

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• Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when…
• Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly…
• Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total…
• The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot…
• "Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether…
• There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves…
• Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the…
• There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt…
• It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach…
• Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the…

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