Quotes by Alfred Korzybski

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. 

Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.

‘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.'

‘The map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.'

The map is not the territory.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.