"In the rough, a symbol is a sign……" — Alfred Korzybski
"In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize."
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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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