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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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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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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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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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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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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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Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
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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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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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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 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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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
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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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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 it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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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 might say the object is, well it is not.
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