4 Quotes by Paul Watzlawick about views

  • Author Paul Watzlawick
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    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's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

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  • Author Paul Watzlawick
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    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.

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  • Author Paul Watzlawick
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    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 to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into which he finds himself "thrown" (to use an existentialist term again) and this view is of the third order.

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  • Author Paul Watzlawick
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    Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality....

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