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

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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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When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years. — Lord Byron
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death… — W. Somerset Maugham
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a… — Frederic Bastiat
"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether… — Max Wertheimer
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the… — Fredrika Bremer
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its… — Jeremy Rifkin
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever. — Archibald MacLeish
Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on… — Emily Bronte
Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his… — Robert E. Lee
What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is… — Pentti Linkola
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. — Richard Stallman

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