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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Books by A. Korzybski

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Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. 1933, 5th Ed., 1994. Preface by Robert P. Pula. (1994). ISBN 0-937298-01-8. c + 806 pp. Hardcover. The fundamental, irreplaceable exposition of general semantics. In this work Korzybski developed important lines of formulating neglected by subsequent authors.

$20.00

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Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, 1921, 2nd ed.(1950). With three additional papers by Korzybski, "What I Believe" (1948), "Author’s Note" from Selections from Science and Sanity (1948), "Some Non-Aristotelian Data on Efficiency for Human Adjustment" (1941); also "A Memoir: Alfred Korzybski & His Work" by M. Kendig. ISBN 0-937298-00-X. lxvi + 326 pp., hardcover.

$15.00

HARDCOVER
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M. Kendig, Ed., collected and arranged the writings of Alfred Korzybski in Collected Writings, 1920 - 1950, (1990). xxv + 915 pp. Hardcover. These formal and informal writings show much of the process of Korzybski’s evolving work that led to MANHOOD OF HUMANITY (1921), SCIENCE AND SANITY (1933), and the founding of the Institute. The SUPPLEMENTARIES show that after the climactic publication of SCIENCE AND SANITY, in another sense, his work was just beginning. [Note: COLLECTED WRITINGS does not include SCIENCE AND SANITY or MANHOOD OF HUMANITY.]

$34.95

SOFTCOVER
* SPECIAL PRICING *
M. Kendig, Ed., collected andarranged the writings of Alfred Korzybski in Collected Writings, 1920 - 1950, (1990). xxv + 915 pp. Softcover. These formal and informal writings show much of the process of Korzybski’s evolving work that led to MANHOOD OF HUMANITY (1921), SCIENCE AND SANITY (1933), and the founding of the Institute. The SUPPLEMENTARIES show that after the climactic publication of SCIENCE AND SANITY, in another sense, his work was just beginning. [Note: COLLECTED WRITINGS does not include SCIENCE AND SANITY or MANHOOD OF HUMANITY.]

$15.00

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Alfred Korzybski, General Semantics Seminar 1937: Olivet College Lectures. Transcription of notes from lectures given at Olivet College, 1937, 3rd Ed. (2002). ISBN 0-910780-15-3. xii + 237 pp. Twelve lectures given to college students on general semantics theory, backgrounds and applications. Korzybski caught ‘live.’ Retains much of the warm anecdotal flavor of his platform manner. Minimal editing.

$8.00

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