Alfred Korzybski Believe Quotations

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

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.

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

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everythingor to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.