Books Quote by Alfred Korzybski

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

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

— Alfred Korzybski

“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

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

— Alfred Korzybski

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

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is…

— Alfred Korzybski

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

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

— Alfred Korzybski

Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

— Alfred Korzybski

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

— Alfred Korzybski

“Definitions create conditions.”

— Alfred Korzybski

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