"To use words to sense reality is like……" — Alfred Korzybski

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp… - Alfred Korzybski

"To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness."

— Alfred Korzybski

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43 Quotes by Alfred Korzybski

Alfred Korzybski has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the…
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if…
Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are…
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may…
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical…
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and…
I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for…
Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

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More Darkness Quotes

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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and… — Billie Joe Armstrong
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I… — Kevin Bacon
I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into… — Kevin Bacon
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey
It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.… — Saint Basil
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when… — Annie Besant
Education is the movement from darkness to light. — Allan Bloom
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which… — Emily Bronte
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to… — Nicolas Cage
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. — Julia Cameron

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