Alfred Korzybski Quotes on Communication
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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.
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Incorrect symbolism... is bound to undermine any possibility of our building a structurally human civilization.
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...the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero...
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.