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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

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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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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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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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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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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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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Words don't mean, people mean.
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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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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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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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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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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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
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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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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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The map is not the territory.
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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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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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