Korzybski General Semantics Quotes

#1. If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

Mark Nepo

#2. The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Robert Darnton

#3. When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Mark Twain

#4. Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Henry B. Eyring

#5. This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things.

Patrick Madrid

#6. Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

Alfred Korzybski

#7. It's not the span of time that matters. It's the quality of love you have in that time that counts. For some people a thousand years would never be enough.

Dan Skinner

#8. I don't think Indians have learnt much since that day. We remain as divided as ever. Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell.

Chetan Bhagat

#9. Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

Walter Russell Mead