There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Those ignorant "masters of our destinies" who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of natural and supernatural must be dethroned… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image