Paul Watzlawick

“What is problematic is the belief in the T-H-E reality, the one and only reality.”

“Every communication has a content and a relationship aspect such that the latter classifies the former and is therefore a metacommunication.”

“Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend our entire lives trying to enforce.”

“Man is a prisoner of his own way of thinking, and of his own assumptions.”

“One cannot not communicate.”

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

“The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.”

“The 'solution' is part of the problem.”

“The situation is hopeless, but not serious.”

“A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, causes the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy'.”

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

“All that is not necessary is necessarily harmful.”

“For an idea to be a good idea it has to be a little bit scary.”

“Ideology is the magnificent justification of the status quo.”

“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.”