"The analogy between the noises we make when……" — Alfred Korzybski
"The analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero"
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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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More Analogy Quotes
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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies…
— Stefan Banach
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all…
— A. R. Ammons
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About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected,…
— Humphry Davy
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of…
— Arthur Koestler
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy…
— Gerhard Richter
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering…
— Mary Hesse
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for…
— Unknown Author
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