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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
Linguist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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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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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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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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Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.
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We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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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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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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I think therefore I seem to be.
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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 it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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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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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
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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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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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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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The map is not the territory.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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