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"12 Alfred Korzybski Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 3 July 1879. Died: 1 March 1950 | Scholar |

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

God May forgive Your sins Nervous system
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Obvious origins Human disagreement Lies Use
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Psychiatric Scientific inquiry Made Our rulers
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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

Use words Sense reality Going A lamp
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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, rule us

Man's achievements Symbols Consider ourselves Semantic class
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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Two ways Slide easily Through life Believe everything
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Words don't mean, people mean.

Words Don't mean People
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

Person What He sees The world
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I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

Same kind Moron The method The work
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Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

Any proposition The word Create Linguistic structural
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I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Make clear Words Things spoken Absolute isolation
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Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

Philosophies Represent nothing Methods Evaluation
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Alfred Korzybski Quotes & Sayings