Quotes for All
In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both organismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a \”hunger for wholeness\”. Organismic biology, Gestalt … Read more
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped. Frederick Salomon Perls
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Frederick Salomon Perls
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last? Frederick Salomon Perls
I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. Frederick Salomon Perls
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness. Frederick Salomon Perls
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. Frederick Salomon Perls
Lose your mind and come to your senses. Frederick Salomon Perls
…nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable. Frederick Salomon Perls
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word ‘design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not … Read more