"Whatever you say it is, it isn't." — Alfred Korzybski

"Whatever you say it is, it isn't."

— 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.
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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Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. — Theodor Adorno
Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. — James Carville
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. — Anton Chekhov
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. — Noam Chomsky
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have… — Tori Amos
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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