87 Quotes by Alfred Korzybski

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

The affairs of man are conducted by our own, man-made rules and according to man-made theories. 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.

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

Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

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

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.