Korzybski General Semantics Quotes & Sayings

it has been possible to make the insecurity of human life supportable by belief in unchanging things beyond the reach of calamity - in God, in man's immortal soul, and in the government of the universe by eternal laws of right. Today — Alan W. Watts

I shrugged and waited for the doors to close before sliding my arm around her waist. — Robyn Schneider

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart. — Vladimir Lenin

What luck! If the theories of Epictetus, Karen Horney (who first talked about the "tyranny of the shoulds"), Alfred Korzybski (the founder of general semantics), and REBT are correct, you almost always bring on your emotional problems by rigidly adopting one of the basic methods of crooked thinking - musturbation. Therefore, if you understand how you upset yourself by slipping into irrational shoulds, oughts, demands, and commands, unconsciously sneaking them into your thinking, you can just about always stop disturbing yourself about anything. — Albert Ellis

It was my fifth lie to the police. I was just starting. — Gillian Flynn

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission? — Erich Fromm

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. — Martin Luther

Two percent who care deeply about something are a more potent political force than the 98 percent who feel the opposite but aren't motivated enough to do anything about it. — Charles Wheelan

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea. — Glenn Close

For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child. — Mother Teresa

I don't get hung up about anything really. — Paz De La Huerta

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power. — Alexis Carrel

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