"Identity is invariably false to facts." — Alfred Korzybski
"Identity is invariably false to facts."
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Alfred Korzybski
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43 Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the…
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If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if…
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Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are…
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Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may…
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The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical…
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and…
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I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for…
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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
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I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get…
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No…
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an…
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.
— Ben Affleck
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I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
— Jo Brand
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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
— Nathaniel Branden
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