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What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
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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Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
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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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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
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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 use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
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The map is not the territory.
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Words don't mean, people mean.
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Who rules our symbols, rules us.
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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
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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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Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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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 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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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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