Alfred Korzybski Quotes - Page 2

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• Identity is invariably false to facts.

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  Self Esteem, Identity, Facts

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• Whatever you say about something, it is not.

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  Truth, Whatever You Say

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

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  Faith, Order, Belief

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• 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 for you.

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  Doe, Kind, Method

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• It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and on no occasion can the so-called 'supernatural' be anything else than a completely natural law, though it may, at the moment, be above and beyond the present understanding.

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  Simple, Law, Understanding

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• Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.

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  Whatever You Say

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• Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

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  Lying, Science, Use

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.82, Institute of GS

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• Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

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  Philosophy, Different, May

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.41, Institute of GS

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• It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

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  Philosopher, Influential, Mystery

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.77, Institute of GS

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• It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

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  Two Nations, Discovery, Agreement

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• What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

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  Reality, Ideas, Progress

  Alfred Korzybski (1974). “Manhood of humanity”, p.28, Рипол Классик

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• If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

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  World, Maps, Links

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.61, Institute of GS

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• To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

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  Stupid, Men, Self

  Alfred Korzybski (1974). “Manhood of humanity”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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• Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

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• Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

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  Two, Important, Maps

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.58, Institute of GS

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• I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

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  Ideas, Want, Isolation

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.50, Institute of GS

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• The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

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  Identity, Negative, Fundamentals

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.10, Institute of GS

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• Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

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  Self Esteem, Men, Needs

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• Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.

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  Psycho, Emotion, Currents

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• One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"

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  Laughter, Vacation, Etc

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• 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 problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.

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  May, Facts, Logic

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