"If we, who live outside asylums, act as……" — Alfred Korzybski
"If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy."
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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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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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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
— Lucretius
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and…
— Alice Meynell
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.
— John Owen
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Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature…
— Rajneesh
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
— Robert Browning
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the…
— Helen Keller
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their…
— Pericles
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Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word…
— Brigitte Gabriel
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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