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.

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.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

You cannot not communicate.

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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

Love is a kind of military service.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

There were different moments where I was like, "Okay, this is who I am today." But, when I'm kept on my toes, I'm having the best time of my life.

I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

Cowardice is no virtue.