Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.
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,… - Alfred Korzybski
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,…
- Alfred Korzybski
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… - Alfred Korzybski
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…
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. - Alfred Korzybski
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'. - Alfred Korzybski
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in… - Alfred Korzybski
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in…
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. - Alfred Korzybski
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. - Alfred Korzybski
The map is not the territory.
I think therefore I seem to be. - Alfred Korzybski
I think therefore I seem to be.
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 map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.
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