Quotes by Alfred Korzybski

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

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.

The map is not the territory.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.