"It is now no mystery that some quite……" — Alfred Korzybski
"It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill."
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Alfred Korzybski
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43 Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski has 43 quotes on this site.
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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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More Ill Quotes
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
— Jane Austen
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
— Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
— Alec Baldwin
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.
— Roseanne Barr
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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