In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.