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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

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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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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Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
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Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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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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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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I think therefore I seem to be.
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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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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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
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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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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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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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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
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We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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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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