Alfred Korzybski Quotes

• 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

  Confused, Maps, Territory

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• To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Reality, Darkness, Lamps

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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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  Vida, Educación, Creer

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• El mapa no es el territorio.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Journey

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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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.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Men, Class, Use

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.76, Institute of GS

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• Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

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  Use, World, Language

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.60, Institute of GS

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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.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Guerra, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Words don't mean, people mean.

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  Mala, Gente, Mala Gente

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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.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Self Esteem, Teaching, Giving

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• Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Knowledge, Might, Wells

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.35, Institute of GS

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• A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

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  Self Improvement, Doe, World

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• As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.

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  Faith, Believe, Gambling

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS

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• We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Missing, Details

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• God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Integrity, Forgiving, May

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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.

  Alfred Korzybski

  World, Maps, Territory

  "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.

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• Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Self Esteem, Play, Training

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS

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• I think therefore I seem to be.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Thinking, Seems

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• Si se realizara una investigación psiquiátrica y científica sobre nuestros gobernantes, la humanidad se horrorizaría ante las revelaciones.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Science, Would Be, Enquiry

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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.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Old School, Men, Intuition

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• Si nosotros, que vivimos fuera de los manicomios, actuamos como si viviéramos en un mundo ficticio -es decir, si somos consecuentes con nuestras creencias-, no podemos ajustarnos a las condiciones reales, y caemos así en muchas dificultades semánticas evitables. Pero la llamada persona normal prácticamente nunca acata sus creencias, y cuando sus creencias están construyendo para él un mundo ficticio, se salva el pellejo no acatándolas. El llamado "demente" actúa de acuerdo con sus creencias, por lo que no puede adaptarse a un mundo que es muy diferente del que imagina.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Faith, Fall, Insane Person

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.87, Institute of GS

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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.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Levels, Silent, Fingers

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.399, Institute of GS

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

  Alfred Korzybski

  Thinking, Mind, 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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  Two, Negative, Isolation

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• Who rules our symbols, rules us.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Símbolos

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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

  Doe, Knows

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.58, Institute of GS

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