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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.

Alfred Korzybski

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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
Engineer
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Mathematician
Philosopher
Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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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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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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Whatever you say about something, it is not.
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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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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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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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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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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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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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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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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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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.
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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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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
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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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