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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
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Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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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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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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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
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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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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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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
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To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
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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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The map is not the territory.
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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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Words don't mean, people mean.
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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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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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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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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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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
Alfred Korzybski
Whatever you say about something, it is not.
Alfred Korzybski