THINK!

April  16,  2012

Quote for Today

"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."

Alfred Korzybski [1879-1950]

Check out Alfred Korzybski - Polish-American scientist and philosopher. Here is a paragraph from Wikipedia on him: "Korzybski thought that people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality. Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: 'The map is not the territory.'"

The picture on top I found on line. It's a picture of Alfred Korzybski in his Chicago officer in 1944. The tiny sign on the left hand bottom corner on the blackboard reads,

"When a private at Randolph Field comes to a noncom with a complaint, he is handed a mourning-bordered card which says: 'Your trials and tribulations have broken my heart. They are unique. I have never heard of anything like them before. As proof of my sympathy, I give you this card which entitles you to one hour of condolence.'"