Ill Quote by Alfred Korzybski Download Open image “It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.” — Alfred Korzybski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ill Influential Mentally ill Mystery Philosopher Philosophy
Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness. — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment.… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment… — Kerry Thornley Copy Share
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to him distressed and said, "Doctor, come to my daughter, she is very ill. She has lost her reason, and she is all I have!" What would you think of the doctor who would not reply at… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share
Im a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, Ill be a farmer. Its something that Ive wanted to do since… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
