These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this… — 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
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and… — 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
A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it. — 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
