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.
Paul WatzlawickThe counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
Paul WatzlawickUsually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.
Paul Watzlawick