Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
Alfred KorzybskiOne would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"
Alfred KorzybskiThe objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.
Alfred KorzybskiAs 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.
Alfred Korzybski