If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
Alfred KorzybskiThe present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
Alfred KorzybskiHe who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
Alfred KorzybskiIt 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.
Alfred Korzybski