"Second order effects, such as belief in belief,……" — Alfred Korzybski
"Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism."
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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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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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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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