For the Gestaltist, thinking was not a reproductive recombination of learned associations but the meaningful effort to understand the fundamental nature and affordances of the given problem situation and the desired goal as a whole.

The former is fastidious, and to be thus selective, thus picksome, is surely a virtue.

The frontispiece by Hogarth seems to represent the unwigging and unfrocking of the Author and the tearing of his paper in the presence of the Vice-Chancellor, proctor, and other members of the University […]

And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light, […]