Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. — 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 according to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share
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
