If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ou….

I think therefore I seem to be..

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

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

These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in….

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking..

Words don't mean, people mean..

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

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; an….

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures..

The map is not the territory..

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 se….

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map..

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,….

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an inte….

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 th….

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

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

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows..

Who rules our symbols, rules us..

Identity is invariably false to facts..