Maxioms by Alfred Korzybski
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the read more
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.
If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be read more
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.
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us read more
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Whatever you say it is, it isn't.
Whatever you say it is, it isn't.
