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Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
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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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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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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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.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
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He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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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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Whatever you say about something, it is not.
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Whatever you may say something is, 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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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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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 symbols, rule us.
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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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The map is not the territory.
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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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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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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
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