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> [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 call the the ultimate paradox of man's existence. Man is ultimately subject and object of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/if-we-have-dwelled-on-godel-s-work-at-some-length-is-it-because-we/)

[Paul Watzlawick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-watzlawick/)

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## More by Paul Watzlawick

> [This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/this-is-the-secret-of-propaganda-to-totally-saturate-the-person-whom/)

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> [“In fact, it seems that the more spontaneous and "healthy" a relationship, the more the relationship aspect of communication recedes into the background.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/in-fact-it-seems-that-the-more-spontaneous-and-healthy-a-relationship/)

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> [“It is not the issue here wether punctuation of communicational sequence is, in general, good or bad, as it should be immediately obvious that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/it-is-not-the-issue-here-wether-punctuation-of-communicational/)

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> [The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/the-suicide-arrives-at-the-conclusion-that-what-he-is-seeking-does/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/it-is-difficult-to-imagine-how-any-behavior-in-the-presence-of/)

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> [Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/frank-farrelly-must-be-thought-of-with-respect-perhaps-even-delight/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-is-an-assumption-or-prediction-that-purely/)

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> [Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/radical-constructivism-thus-is-radical-because-it-breaks-with/)

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> [Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/man-never-ceases-to-seek-knowledge-about-the-objects-of-his/)

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> [Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/maturity-is-doing-what-you-think-is-best-even-when-your-mother-thinks/)

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> [“The trouble is that everybody, myself included, has a brain in which the centers concerned with reason and logic are sitting on top of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/the-trouble-is-that-everybody-myself-included-has-a-brain-in-which/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/if-we-have-dwelled-on-godel-s-work-at-some-length-is-it-because-we/)

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> [For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/for-an-answer-which-cannot-be-expressed-the-question-too-cannot-be/)

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> [You cannot not communicate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/you-cannot-not-communicate/)

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> [“In human relations, all prediction is connected in one way or another with the phenomenon of trust.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watzlawick/in-human-relations-all-prediction-is-connected-in-one-way-or-another/)

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