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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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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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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 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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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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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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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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Whatever you say about something, 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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Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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The map is not the territory.
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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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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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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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Words don't mean, people mean.
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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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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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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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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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