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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.
Alfred Korzybski
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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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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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Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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Words don't mean, people mean.
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
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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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Whatever you say about something, it is not.
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The map is not the territory.
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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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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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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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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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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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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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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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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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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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