87 Quotes by Alfred Korzybski

Riches I need not, nor man’s empty praise.

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

Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.

I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it’s the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

The reader must be reminded that it takes a good ‘mind’ to be ‘insane’. Morons, imbeciles, and idiots are ‘mentally’ deficient, but could not be insane.

There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have “poisoned,” in a literal sense of the word, our minds with the physico-chemical effects of wrong ideas.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about “essences”-they leave “essences” to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

Whatever we may say will not be the objective level, which remains fundamentally un-speakable. Thus, we can sit on the object called ‘a chair’, but we cannot sit on the noise we made or the name we applied to that object.

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