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

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Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS

Alfred Korzybski

#Self Esteem Quotes #Play Quotes #Training Quotes

“Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.”
“The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”
“The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.”
“For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind...”
“My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.”
“You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.”

Source : "Leader of China Angrily Chastises Hong Kong Media" by Mark Landler, www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2000.
“Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.”
“A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired.”

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