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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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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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Laughter
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.
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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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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.
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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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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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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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Whatever you say about something, it is not.
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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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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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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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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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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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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The map is not the territory.
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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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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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