... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a sym...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI …a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosop...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) W...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI …the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled a...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated pr...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Whatever you say it is, it isn't.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI There are two ways to slide easily though life: To believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The map is not the territory.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The affairs of man are conducted by our own, man-made rules and according to man-made theories. Man'...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everythi...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI …the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, a...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI If the map shows a different structure from the territory represented -- for instance, shows the cit...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible li...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't
ALFRED KORZYBSKI A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territo...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental th...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI When we say ‘our rulers’, we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, b...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in e...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everythingor to doubt everything. Both w...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tende...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Say wharever you choose about the object, and wharever you might say it is not. Or, in other words: ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The reader must be reminded that it takes a good 'mind' to be 'insane'. Morons, imbeciles, and idiot...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI No reflecting reader can deny that the passing off, on an unsuspecting listener, of noises for words...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI If we do not objectify, and feel instinctively and permanently that words are not the things spoken ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirica...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Whatever we may say will not be the objective level, which remains fundamentally un-speakable. Thus,...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactio...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Our rulers, who rule our symbols, and so rule a symbolic class of life, impose their own infantilism...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Moreover, every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own str...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politician...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and s...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and s...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
ALFRED JARRY Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically Engli...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the...
ALFRED SUTRO To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th...
ALFRED NOBEL Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
ALFRED ADLER I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ...
ALFRED JARRY Man knows more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
ALFRED NOBEL Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
ALFRED AUSTIN There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
ALFRED ADLER It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up...
ALFRED DOMETT Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
--ALFRED MARSHALL This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon...
ALFRED ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled ...
ALFRED ADLER In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who s...
ALFRED ADLER It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetra...
ALFRED ADLER It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relations...
ALFRED ADLER The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of t...
ALFRED ADLER What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who...
ALFRED ADLER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning
ALFRED ADLER A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
ALFRED ADLER What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
ALFRED ADLER It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, an...
ALFRED ADLER I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assem...
ALFRED BUNN We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
ALFRED JARRY If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfil...
ALFRED ADLER Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert.
ALFRED MONTAPERT It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original...
ALFRED JARRY It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
ALFRED AUSTIN The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
ALFRED BRENDEL The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to c...
ALFRED ADLER To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its o...
ALFRED ADLER There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by...
ALFRED KASTLER On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilize...
ALFRED NOBEL Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevi...
ALFRED ADLER For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, ...
ALFRED NOBEL By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir...
ALFRED ENOCH Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit...
ALFRED ADLER Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
ALFRED ADLER One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and dif...
ALFRED NOBEL Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
ALFRED MARSHALL In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
ALFRED MARSHALL Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
ALFRED AUSTIN I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...
ALFRED NOBEL I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course...
ALFRED MOLINA