To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed… — 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
