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.'

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

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

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.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

You cannot not communicate.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

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.

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

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

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

You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.

It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

There is a bright to even the darkest circumstance, if you have the courage to look for it.

Hope is firm belief.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.