"From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philosophers' or 'meta-physicians'. But they sel...












The map is not the territory.
More Alfred Korzybski quotes
"Philosophy, as defined by Fichte, is the "science of sciences." Its aim was to solve the problems of the world. In the past, when all exact sciences w...
"Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law was and is to protect the past an...
"...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is...
"Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence and daily more active and far reaching, t...
"Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.
"Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use t...