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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 only content…
• If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are…
• Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.
• Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal…
• The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and…
• Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who…
• I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as…
• 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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