“It seems to us that in its most basic definition, existential despair is the painful discrepancy between what is and what should be , between one's perceptions ans one's third-order premises.” — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“In fact, it seems that the more spontaneous and "healthy" a relationship, the more the relationship aspect of communication recedes into the background.” — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“It is not the issue here wether punctuation of communicational sequence is, in general, good or bad, as it should be immediately obvious that… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective'… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that everybody, myself included, has a brain in which the centers concerned with reason and logic are sitting on top of… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what we would… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
