"We should not be surprised that we find……" — Alfred Korzybski
"We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise most of the old philosophical fights and arguments."
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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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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids…
— Margaret Atwood
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The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen…
— Roger Bacon
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My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
— John Barrymore
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that…
— Robert Benchley
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
— Wendell Berry
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
— Josh Billings
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is…
— Samuel Butler
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Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for…
— Kirk Cameron
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
— Albert Camus
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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people…
— Benjamin Carson
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