All Paul Watzlawick Quotes
- 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… Break
- 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… All
- 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 the… Another Person
- That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to… According
- 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… Anti
- Maturity… Is The Ability To Do Something Even Though Your Parents Have Recommended It. Ability
- 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… Arrives
- Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with… Afraid
- You cannot not communicate. Communicate
- The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. Counterpart
- Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references… All
- For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist... Answer
- It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game… Accepted
- The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. All
- 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… Accuracy
- 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,… Even Noticing
- In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that… Act