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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.

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
Plows
Sows
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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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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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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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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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We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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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, 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.
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
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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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Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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Identity is invariably false to facts.
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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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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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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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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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
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