Paul Watzlawick Quotes
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.
Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.