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Top 30 Paul Watzlawick Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Watzlawick Quote: “You cannot not communicate.”

1. “You cannot not communicate.”

— Paul Watzlawick

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “Man kann nicht nicht kommunizieren.”

2. “Man kann nicht nicht kommunizieren.”

— Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick Quote: “The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”

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

— Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick Quote: “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 occur and thus confirms its own ‘accuracy.’”

4. “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 occur and thus confirms its own ‘accuracy.’”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “Wer als Werkzeug nur einen Hammer hat, sieht in jedem Problem einen Nagel.”

5. “Wer als Werkzeug nur einen Hammer hat, sieht in jedem Problem einen Nagel.”

— Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick Quote: “Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an ‘objective’ ontological reality.”

6. “Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an ‘objective’ ontological reality.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.”

7. “The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.”

— Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick Quote: “Disagreement about how to punctuate the sequence of events is at the root of countless relationship struggles.”

8. “Disagreement about how to punctuate the sequence of events is at the root of countless relationship struggles.”

— Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick Quote: “It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.”

9. “It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it’s a good idea.”

11. “Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it’s a good idea.”

— Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Paul Watzlawick

Paul Watzlawick Quote: “There is in the nature of human communication no way of making another person a participant in information or perception available exclusively to oneself.”

13. “There is in the nature of human communication no way of making another person a participant in information or perception available exclusively to oneself.”

— Paul Watzlawick

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

14. “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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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist...”

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

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “To avoid a frequent misunderstanding, it cannot be emphasized too strongly that symmetry and complementarity in communication are not ins and by themselves “good” or “bad”, “normal” or “abnormal”, etc. The two concepts simply refer tp two basic categories into which all communicational interchanges can be divided.”

17. “To avoid a frequent misunderstanding, it cannot be emphasized too strongly that symmetry and complementarity in communication are not ins and by themselves “good” or “bad”, “normal” or “abnormal”, etc. The two concepts simply refer tp two basic categories into which all communicational interchanges can be divided.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.”

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

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “When Paul announced himself in a rather formal way to the secretary, he said simply, “I am Watzlawick.” She suspected he was a new psychiatric patient showing up for an appointment at the wrong time, and she interpreted his introduction as, “I am not Slavic.”

20. “When Paul announced himself in a rather formal way to the secretary, he said simply, “I am Watzlawick.” She suspected he was a new psychiatric patient showing up for an appointment at the wrong time, and she interpreted his introduction as, “I am not Slavic.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “Thus when an interpretation of the world, an ideology, for example, claims to explain everything, one thing remains inexplicable, namely, the interpretive system itself. And with that, every claim to completeness and finality fails.”

21. “Thus when an interpretation of the world, an ideology, for example, claims to explain everything, one thing remains inexplicable, namely, the interpretive system itself. And with that, every claim to completeness and finality fails.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “Gear-shifting is thus a phenomenon of a higher logical type than giving gas, and it would be patently nonsensical to talk about the mechanics of complex gears in the language of the thermodynamics of fuel supply.”

23. “Gear-shifting is thus a phenomenon of a higher logical type than giving gas, and it would be patently nonsensical to talk about the mechanics of complex gears in the language of the thermodynamics of fuel supply.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “Another property of a group is that one may combine its members in varying sequence, yet the outcome of the combination remains the same.”

24. “Another property of a group is that one may combine its members in varying sequence, yet the outcome of the combination remains the same.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “A population of four million is not quantitatively but qualitatively different from an individual, because it involves systems of interaction among the individuals.”

25. “A population of four million is not quantitatively but qualitatively different from an individual, because it involves systems of interaction among the individuals.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “In human relations, all prediction is connected in one way or another with the phenomenon of trust.”

26. “In human relations, all prediction is connected in one way or another with the phenomenon of trust.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “It is in the nature of paradox that “equations” based on it do not work out. Where paradox contaminates human relations, disease appears.”

27. “It is in the nature of paradox that “equations” based on it do not work out. Where paradox contaminates human relations, disease appears.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “The loss or the absence of meaning in life is perhaps the most common denominator of all forms of emotional distress; it is especially the much-commented-on “modern” illness.”

28. “The loss or the absence of meaning in life is perhaps the most common denominator of all forms of emotional distress; it is especially the much-commented-on “modern” illness.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “In psychotherapeutic work with intelligent schizophrenics on again and again is tempted to conclude that they would be much better off, much more “normal”, if they could only somehow blunt the acuity of their thinking and thus alleviate the paralyzing effect it has on their actions.”

29. “In psychotherapeutic work with intelligent schizophrenics on again and again is tempted to conclude that they would be much better off, much more “normal”, if they could only somehow blunt the acuity of their thinking and thus alleviate the paralyzing effect it has on their actions.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “In fact, it seems that the more spontaneous and “healthy” a relationship, the more the relationship aspect of communication recedes into the background.”

30. “In fact, it seems that the more spontaneous and “healthy” a relationship, the more the relationship aspect of communication recedes into the background.”

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Paul Watzlawick Quote: “In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose.”

31. “In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose.”

— Paul Watzlawick

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