1. “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’.”
2. “The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.”
3. “For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. the riddle does not exist.”
4. “Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it’s a good idea.”
5. “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.”
6. “The belief that one’s own view of reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”
7. “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.”
8. “It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence can avoid being a communication of one’s on view of the nature of one’s relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.”
9. “Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption that the other shares his views of reality, that indeed there is only one reality.”
10. “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.”
