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Whatever you say it is, it isn't.
— Alfred Korzybski
We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
— Alfred Korzybski
Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
— Alfred Korzybski
Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
— Alfred Korzybski
Who rules our symbols, rules us.
— Alfred Korzybski
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
— Alfred Korzybski
A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
— Alfred Korzybski
Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
— Alfred Korzybski
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.
— 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 ...
— Alfred Korzybski
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
— Alfred Korzybski
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
— Alfred Korzybski
Words don't mean, people mean.
— Alfred Korzybski
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
— Alfred Korzybski
What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.
— Alfred Korzybski
Whatever you say about something, it is not.
— Alfred Korzybski
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
— Alfred Korzybski
Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic. This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no
— Alfred Korzybski
The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
— Gregory Bateson
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
The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.
— Alfred Korzybski
The map is not the territory.
— Alfred Korzybski
Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.
— Alfred Korzybski
He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
— Alfred Korzybski
Identity is invariably false to facts.
— Alfred Korzybski
Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.
— Alfred Korzybski
Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
— Alfred Korzybski
Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.
— Alfred Korzybski
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
— Alfred Korzybski
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
— Alfred Korzybski
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
— Alfred Korzybski
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
— Alfred Korzybski
I think therefore I seem to be.
— Alfred Korzybski