Symbols Quote by Alfred Korzybski Download Open image “Who rules our symbols, rules us.” — Alfred Korzybski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Symbols
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“There's no rule book for the world. It's in our heads, our collective human hive-mind. If there are rules, we're the ones making them.… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I am about rules, I make my rules, I live them, I understand them — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
Why do there have to be rules for everything? It's gotten to the point that rules dominate just about every aspect of our lives.… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Far more powerful than religion, far more powerful than money, or even land or violence, are symbols. Symbols are stories. Symbols are pictures, or… — Lia Habel 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
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
You can have Asians being leading men that are sex symbols. You can have leading women powering through. — Henry Golding Copy Share Image
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image