Quotes by : Alfred Korzybski

Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence....

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways....

The map is not the territory.

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed....

Those ignorant "masters of our destinies" who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of natural....

There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute nothingness'.....

From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men....

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue....

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

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