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If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

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[Lewin defined conflict] as the opposition of approximately equally strong field forces.

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The young mathematical disciple 'topology' might be of some help in making psychology a real science.

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It is not the similarity or dissimilarity of individuals that constitutes a group, but interdependence of fate.

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A goal can play an essential role in the psychological situation without being clearly present in consciousness.

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Only by the concrete whole which comprises the object and the situation are the vectors which determine the dynamics of the event defined.

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We no longer seek the cause of events in the nature of a single isolated object, but in the relationship between an object and its surroundings.

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The study of the conditions for change begins appropriately with an analysis of the conditions for no change, that is, for the state of equilibrium.

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Lewin formally defines a Gestalt as:
a system whose parts are dynamically connected in such a way that a change of one part results in a change of all other parts.

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Do not in any way 'prove the rule,' but on the contrary are completely valid disproofs, even though they are rare, indeed, so long as one single exception is demonstrable.

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The valence of an object usually derives from the fact that the object is a means to the satisfaction of a need, or has indirectly something to do with the satisfaction of a need.

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A conflict is to be characterized psychologically as a situation in which oppositely directed, simultaneously acting forces of approximately equal strength work upon the individual.

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Even if all the laws of psychology were known, one could make a prediction about the behavior of a man only if in addition to the laws, the special nature of the particular situation were known.

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