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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
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Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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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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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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If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most of what we call stupidity and even a great deal of what we consider insanity might disappear, and the intractable problems of war, poverty and injustice would suddenly seem a great deal closer to solution.
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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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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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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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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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Words don't mean, people mean.
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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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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
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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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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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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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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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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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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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