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…

- Paul Watzlawick

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable ris…

- Paul Watzlawick

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 …

- Paul Watzlawick

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

- Paul Watzlawick

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 …

- Paul Watzlawick

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…

- Paul Watzlawick

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…

- Paul Watzlawick

You cannot not communicate.

- Paul Watzlawick

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

- Paul Watzlawick