We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
- Alfred Korzybski

3 Questions: "What?"........."So what?"........."Now what?"
- Coro wisdom

"The world we have created today as a result of our thinking thus far has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them."
- Albert Einstein

"The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything."
- George Santayana

"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 10-foot chain."
- Adlai Stevenson

"Teaching and learning that lead to no significant change in behavior are practically worthless."
– Irving Lee

"Learning to un-learn to learn, for me, best describes the process of learning the discipline theoretically (verbally) and organismically."
– M. Kendig

"Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact."
- Gifford Pinchot

"The trouble with people is not so much with their ignorance as it is with their knowing so many things that are not so."
- William Alanson White

"You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been."
- Mark Twain

"A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it."
- Alfred Korzybski

"You can't step into the same river twice."
- Heraclitus

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Happiness is not something that happens….It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them."
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"We are always getting to live, but never living."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depend directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences."
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"God may forgive your sins. But your nervous system won't."
- Alfred Korzybski

"The self explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes an explorer of everything else."
- Elias Canetti

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
- Mark Twain

"Time is but the stream I go fishing in."
- Henry David Thoreau

"It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and only lukewarm defenders among those who may do well under the new."
- Machiavelli

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw

"To progress, man must re-make himself, and he cannot re-make himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor."
- Alexis Carrel

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
- Elvis Costello

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La Semántica General

For an overview of General Semantics in English, click here.

La Semántica General (o GS) puede considerarse un sistema de evaluación y de conciencia. Ofrece una metodología sistemática para entender cómo nos relacionamos con el mundo, cómo reaccionamos ante nuestras propias reacciones y cómo calibramos nuestra conducta en consecuencia.

Ya que el lenguaje provee los medios y el entorno dentro del cual se produce este proceso evaluativo, buena parte de la semántica general tiene que ver con el estudio de los efectos del lenguaje (y de otros sistemas simbólicos) en nuestra conducta y viceversa.

La Semántica General estudia cómo percibimos, construimos, evaluamos y comunicamos nuestras experiencias de vida. Puede considerarse un estudio interdisciplinario ya que al estudiar semántica general, se integran conocimientos de muchos campos académicos – no sólo de lengua y comunicación, sino también de psicología, física, química, matemática, fisiología, sociología, antropología, etc.

… la experiencia muestra que cuando se aplican los métodos de la semántica general, los resultados resultan beneficiosos en distintas áreas, trátese del derecho, la medicina, el mundo empresarial o de los negocios, tanto en la familia, como a nivel nacional o internacional. Si no se aplican los métodos, sino que simplemente se habla de ellos, no hay que esperar resultado alguno.

- Alfred Korzybski

Como sistema, GS utiliza los principios y métodos de la ciencia moderna aplicándolos a la mayoría de las áreas de la actividad humana. Ofrece medios para mejorar nuestras actividades, interacciones y relaciones día a día.

La Semántica General fue presentada por Alfred Korzybski en un libro titulado Science and Sanity (Ciencia y Sensatez). Inicialmente publicado en 1933, va por la quinta edición y ha inspirado muchas obras de divulgación, más de ciento cincuenta tesis doctorales y dos revistas especializadas. Se lo utiliza como fuente de cursos de educación en colegios y universidades, como asimismo en seminarios y programas de capacitación ofrecidos por el Instituto.

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