Alfred Korzybski Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

20 Famous Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
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“…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…”
Law Quotes
“It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.”
Law Quotes
“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.”
Law Quotes
“Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.”
Law Quotes
“We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.”
Law Quotes
“…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.”
Law Quotes
“In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.”
Law Quotes
“If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.”
Law Quotes
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
Sceptic Quotes
“…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…”
Semantics Quotes
“It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.”
Semantics Quotes
“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.”
Semantics Quotes
“Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.”
Semantics Quotes
“We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.”
Semantics Quotes
“Whatever you say it is, it isn't.”
Semantics Quotes
“…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.”
Semantics Quotes
“In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.”
Semantics Quotes
“If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.”
Semantics Quotes
“If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ‘identical with themselves’, the old dictum that ‘everything is identical with itself’ becomes in [today’s understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.”
Semantics Quotes
“The map is not the territory.”
Inspirational Quotes
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