The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.

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

I think therefore I seem to be.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.