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.

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.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.