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2def01a I want to see all oppressed people throughout the world free. And the only way we can do this is by moving toward a revolutionary society where the needs and wishes of all people can be respected.' With these words the radical philosophy professor Angela Davis paraphrases Isaiah's ancient messianic dream of the lion that will peacefully lie down with the lamb in a completely good world. But what the Biblical prophet perhaps could not know i.. desire-for-perfection isaiah Paul Watzlawick
872b246 In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose. Paul Watzlawick
3cbf296 The ideological premise, however, "can" not be defective; it is sacrosanct. ... Whatever does not seem right, whatever does not fit, must be explained by something wrong outside of the ideology; for its perfection is beyond all doubt. In (t)his way the ideology immunizes itself by offering more and more hair-splitting accusations. Betrayal and the dark powers of inner and outer enemies lie in wait everywhere. Theories about conspiracies dev.. sacrosanct enemies ideology Paul Watzlawick
d19b49e Bati'nin su Irrevantinerleri*. Bunlarin durumlari hep umutsuz gibi gorunur ama durum hicbir zaman vahim degildir. *dert etmeyenler anlamina gelen yakistirma. Paul Watzlawick
f01419b Ozgurluk iyiyle, dogruyla, mukemmelle ozdes tutulamaz... Ozgurlugun iyiyle ve mukemmellikle her karisimi ve ozdes tutulmasi bizzat ozgurlugun reddidir, siddet ve baski ilanidir. Zora dayanan iyi artik iyi degildir, kotuye donusmustur. Paul Watzlawick
7408537 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." Paul Watzlawick
e9d4670 It seems to us that in its most basic definition, existential despair is the painful discrepancy between what and what , between one's perceptions ans one's third-order premises. Paul Watzlawick
9afd83b and as long as the outcome of any combination of two or more members is itself a member of the group. Paul Watzlawick
2c934ba Another property of a group is that one may combine its members in varying sequence, yet the outcome of the combination remains the same. Paul Watzlawick
d999322 there is changeability in process, but invariance in outcome. Paul Watzlawick
af34a4b In human relations, all prediction is connected in one way or another with the phenomenon of trust. Paul Watzlawick
c10caea Unfortunately, natural language often makes a clear distinction between member and class difficult. Paul Watzlawick
d41ae70 In fact, it seems that the more spontaneous and "healthy" a relationship, the more the relationship aspect of communication recedes into the background." Paul Watzlawick
26c73f8 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. Paul Watzlawick
8e31750 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." Paul Watzlawick
2592482 The basic theme of a hostile environment that seeks to destroy the ideology has many variations. Hitler fought his life-and-death struggle against a coalition (constructed by him alone) of 'Jewish, plutocratic and Bolshevik powers supported by the Vatican'; Ulrike Meinhof's indignation was directed against 'the German parliamentary coalition, the American government, the police, the state and university authorities, the bourgeois, the Shah .. theme-of-a-hostile-environment Paul Watzlawick
169256a 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." Paul Watzlawick
72ae86c It is in the nature of paradox that "equations" based on it do not work out. Where paradox contaminates human relations, disease appears." Paul Watzlawick
09868fe It is not the issue here wether punctuation of communicational sequence is, in general, good or bad, as it should be immediately obvious that punctuation Paul Watzlawick
4d26e09 Este libro analiza el hecho de que lo que llamamos realidad es resultado de la comunicacion. Paul Watzlawick
8fa6368 la vida es un juego cuya primera regla es: esto no es un juego, Paul Watzlawick
ed3cffa Si nosotros lo creyeramos, sabriamos que no solo somos los creadores de nuestra desdicha, sino que tambien de nuestra felicidad. Paul Watzlawick
1dc0880 in order to be solved, a problem first of all has to be a problem. What we mean by this is that the translation of a vaguely stated problem into concrete terms permits the crucial separation of problems from pseudo-problems. Paul Watzlawick