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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
Alfred Korzybski
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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
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Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
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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 may say something is, it is not!
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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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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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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.
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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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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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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
Alfred Korzybski
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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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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Words don't mean, people mean.
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We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
Alfred Korzybski
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
Alfred Korzybski
Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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