List of Alfred Korzybski Quotes

Psycho-galvonic Experiments Show Clearly That Every Emotion Or Thought Is Always Connected With Some Electrical Current.

Mathematics And Logic Have Been Proved To Be One; A Fact From Which It Seems To Follow That Mathematics May Successfully Deal With Non-quantitative Problems In A Much Broader Sense Than Was Suspected To Be Possible.

One Would Have To Say "in The End Everything Is A Gag, Etc" Because Everything Is Infinitely More Than Just A Gag. The Same Applies To Other "is"-statements Such As "laughter Is An Instant Vacation"

Whatever You Might Say The Object "is", Well It Is Not.

Riches I Need Not, Nor Man's Empty Praise.

The Present Non-aristotelian System Is Based On Fundamental Negative Premises; Namely, The Complete Denial Of 'identity.'

The Objective Level Is Not Words, And Cannot Be Reached By Words Alone. We Must Point Our Finger And Be Silent, Or We Will Never Reach This Level.

I Want To Make Clear Only That Words Are Not The Things Spoken About, And That There Is No Such Thing As An Object In Absolute Isolation.

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.

It Seems Evident That Everything Which Exists In Nature, Is Natural, No Matter How Simple Or Complicated A Phenomenon It Is; And On No Occasion Can The So-called 'supernatural' Be Anything Else Than A Completely Natural Law, Though It May, At The Moment, Be Above And Beyond The Present Understanding.

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.

Identification Makes General Sanity And Complete Adjustment Impossible. Training In Non-identity Plays A Therapeutic Role With Adults.