87 Quotes by Alfred Korzybski

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

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

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

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

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.

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.

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

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

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.