Christian von Ehrenfels

"By a Gestalt quality we understand a positive content of presentation bound up in consciousness with the presence of complexes of mutually separable elements. That complex of presentations which is ne…"

"For the intimate fusion of touch, temperature and sometimes also taste and smell sensations into a single unified total impression raises the question of whether we do not have here Gestalt qualities …"

"Not all desired things are valuable, but rather only those which are worthy of being desired. Whether this worthiness belongs to a thing, however, is not in the particular case yielded from the invest…"

"Is it not conceivable, that each tone is the fusion of a sum of still more primitive elements with the Gestalt qualities bound up therewith?... No conclusive argument can be brought forward even again…"

"It will first of all be clear that not only incompatible but also compatible characters can be thought in emptily intended combinations. This indeed takes place very often, as a result of that parsimo…"

"We must also accept the possibility of Gestalt qualities comprehending complexes of elements of different categories."