Alfred Korzybski Self Quotations

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.