"Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily……" — Max Wertheimer
"Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men rather than in their statements that truth or falsehood lives, more in what a man does, in his real reaction to other men and to things, in his will to do them justice, to live at one with them. Here lies the inner connection between truth and justice. In the realm of behavior and action, the problem recurs as to the difference between piece and part."
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Max Wertheimer
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10 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,…
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Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard…
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The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the…
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which…
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There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes…
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Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure,…
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There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past…
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It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether…
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