Occupation: Psychologist Birth: July 25, 1921 Death: March 31, 2007
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable ris….
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 occu….
But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be abundantly clear by now, nothing inside a….
Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with their thera….
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality..
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….
That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of ….
As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more d….
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 who know that ….
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 exists….
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 nature of one'….
Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea..
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.
You cannot not communicate..
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight..
You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it i….
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an ….
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by referen….
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy..
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist..
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions..