Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.

Popular Topics
Kind, World, Reality, Peace And Love, Things In Life, Beauty, Acknowledge, Dance, Loves, Music, Oceans, Amazing Music, Secret, Value Of Life, Town, Dream, Pregnancy, Movie Love, Curiosity, Afternoon, Funny, Integrity, Think, Teacher, Possible, Like, Night, Name, Flower, Organization, Inspiring, Talent, Humbly, Food, Body, Thinking, Journey, Intelligent, Poet, Song, Comfortable, Inspired, America, Heart, Period, Thought, Thank You, Football, Wonder, Evidence
Alfred Korzybski

If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.

Abiding, Asylums, Faith, Fall, Insane Person, World
Same Author Quotes

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Evolved, Having, Language, Use, Words, World

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.

Agreement, Discovery, Economic, Mathematics, Two

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.

Ideas, Isolation, Make, Want, Words

Identity is invariably false to facts.

Facts, False, Identity, Invariably, Self Esteem

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

Faculties, Intuition, Men, Parcels, School, Whole
Similar Quotes