4 Alfred Korzybski Quotes on Communication

Alfred Korzybski quotes on communication

13. 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.

20. Incorrect symbolism... is bound to undermine any possibility of our building a structurally human civilization.

23. ...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...

25. Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.