Analogies Quote 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…

— Paul Watzlawick

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

— Paul Watzlawick

“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

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist...

— Paul Watzlawick