"If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy."

Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.87, Institute of GS

Alfred Korzybski

#Faith Quotes #Fall Quotes #Insane Quotes

“Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?”
“I'm a product of what I believe in.”
“In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.”
“Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".”
“Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.27
“A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write carelessly or suddenly, to add or insert suddenly or carelessly to or in the page. "To dash" comes from Middle English daschen, itself probably from Scandinavian-compare Danish daske, to beat, to strike. Ultimately the word is-rather obviously-echoic.”

Source : Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.70, Routledge
“The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.138, Vintage
“I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.”

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