Semanticist Quotes & Sayings

Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day. — Shane Filan

Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body. — Lidia Yuknavitch

People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal. — Robert Anton Wilson

How can you stay worried when someone gives you warm chocolate chip cookies? — Faith Hunter

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty! — Benito Mussolini

It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The best exercise in the world is to bend down and help someone up. — Jeanne Phillips

Any learned man is worth hearing, and who needs enemies? — Julie Berry

I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times. — James Crumley

In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? — Lisa Randall

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. — William Feather

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie. — Bob Hope

All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is. As semanticist Alfred Korzybski used to say, it is an urgent necessity to distinguish between the map and the territory and, he might have added, between the flag and the country. — Alan W. Watts

Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes. — Suze Orman

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation. — Peter DeFazio