"As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances."

Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS

Alfred Korzybski

#Faith Quotes #Believe Quotes #Gambling Quotes

“The Holy Land is everywhere.”
“What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.”
“We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think....”
“I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.”

Source : "Journal of Contemporary Art" Interview with Jutta Koether, www.jca-online.com.
“The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.”
“I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.”

Source : "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.
“I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.”
“I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.”

Source : Mel White (2015). “STRANGER AT THE GATE”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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