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Paul Watzlawick

Austrian Psychologist

Born: Jul 25, 1921

Died: Mar 31, 2007

He Nature Own Reality Suicide Words

Related authors: Alfred Adler Anna Freud Helene Deutsch Otto Rank Sigmund Freud Viktor E. Frankl Wilhelm Reich

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

Reality Dangerous Own Only Delusions Most View Belief

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

Secret Propaganda Totally Lay He Ideas Him Without Person Being Hold Wants The Secret Of Noticing Even Whom Saturate Saturated

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 independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions. Paul Watzlawick

Words World Invention Other Considers Independently Unaware Something Inventor Supposedly Him Becomes His Exists In Other Words Then Act View Who Actions Found Whose World View Basis

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. Paul Watzlawick

Nature Comedy Classical Above Since Passages References Times Representation Fictive Which Again Found Play Level Spectators Interrupted

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