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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.

Alfred Korzybski

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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
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Mathematician
Philosopher
Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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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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I think therefore I seem to be.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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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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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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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.
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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 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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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 is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.
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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 it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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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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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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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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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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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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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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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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