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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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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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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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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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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
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Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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Whatever you say about something, it is not.
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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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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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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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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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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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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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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
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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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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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