Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements.
Interpretation
Thinking is a structured process aimed at improving situations based on envisioned requirements.
Max Wertheimer's quote emphasizes the importance of structured thinking in problem-solving and decision-making. It suggests that effective thinking involves not just contemplation, but also a systematic approach to understanding and addressing the features and requirements of a situation, which ultimately leads to meaningful improvements and changes.
In practice
In a leadership meeting, one could quote this to emphasize the importance of strategic thinking.
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 the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clearcut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole.
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 intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such wholes.
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. _x000D_ _x000D_ Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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