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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

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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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
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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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The map is not the territory.
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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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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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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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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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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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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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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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Words don't mean, people mean.
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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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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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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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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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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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Whatever you say about something, it is not.
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