"Who rules our symbols, rules us."

-- Alfred Korzybski

#Symbols Quotes

“The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse .... It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away the meat.... His theorems no more follow from his postulates than the hunches of a horse player follow logically from the latest racing news. The result is guesswork clad in long flowing robes of gobbledygook.”
“I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.”
“I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.”
“If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.”
“In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.”
“Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."”
“In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.”
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

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