The map is not the territory.

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

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.