Quotes by Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

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We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
If we do not objectify, and feel instinctively and permanently that words are not the things spoken about, then we could — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philosophers' or ' — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute nothingness'. First — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became A universe. Somethi — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-su — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental than differences. Less — Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics