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

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 risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.

Paul Watzlawick

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

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 the rules are 'real' only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.

Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick

Born: July 25, 1921

Died: March 31, 2007 (aged 85)

Bio: Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian-American family therapist, psychologist, communications theorist, and philosopher.

Known for:

How real is real? (1976)
Pragmatics of human communication (1967)
The Language of Change (1978)
The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious (1983)

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