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«There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.»
Author: Alfred Korzybski
(Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Faith,
Life,
Sceptic,
Thinking
| Keywords:
slid, slide, sliding
«God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't»
«The map is not the territory.»
Author: Alfred Korzybski
(Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
map, territories, territory, The map
«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.»
«There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everythingor to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.»
«It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification -- the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.»
Author: Alfred Korzybski
(Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
agreement, amusing, assumed, Discovery of, economic system, exhibit, finite, identification, insoluble, quarrels, semantic, The Discovery, twentieth, twentieth century
«Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.»
«If the map shows a different structure from the territory represented -- for instance, shows the cities in a wrong order. . . . then the map is worse than useless, as it misinforms and leads astray.»
«?the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero?»
«It is now no mystery that some quite influential ?philosophers? were ?mentally? ill.»
Author: Alfred Korzybski
(Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Law,
Logic,
Politics,
Psychology,
Semantics
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