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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.

Alfred Korzybski

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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
Engineer
Linguist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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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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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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Words don't mean, people mean.
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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.
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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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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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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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Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.
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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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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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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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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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