Alfred Korzybski Quotes

The map is not the territory.

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The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.

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It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.

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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

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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.

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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

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Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

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If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

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