Paul Watzlawick

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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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 occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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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, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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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' ontological reality. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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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 in the right place. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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