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There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
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Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
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Whatever you say about something, it is not.
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The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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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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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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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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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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The map is not the territory.
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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.
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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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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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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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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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I think therefore I seem to be.
Alfred Korzybski
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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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.
Alfred Korzybski
