Alfred Korzybski Quotes

From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men...

Definitions create conditions.

If we analyse the classes of life, we readily find that there are three cardinal classes which are r...

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

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible li...

The map is not the territory.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and s...

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which...

to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal pr...

Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in e...

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everythi...

What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer...

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will con...

...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians som...

Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit...

Philosophy, as defined by Fichte, is the "science of sciences." Its aim was to solve the problems of...

Those ignorant "masters of our destinies" who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of na...

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both way...

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and s...

Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-...

Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became...

Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental th...

We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tende...

There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute ...

If we do not objectify, and feel instinctively and permanently that words are not the things spoken ...

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed...