<…> Концепция человека как смеси животного и сверхъестественного на протяжении веков удерживала людей под смертельным заклинанием внушения, что животный эгоизм животная жадность являются их существенным характером , и заклинание действовало, чтобы подавить свою РЕАЛЬНУЮ ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКУЮ ПРИРОДУ и предотвратить ее естественное и свободное выражение.
Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. One has to stop and think! There is nothing mystical about the fact that ideas and words are energies which powerfully affect the physico-chemical base of our time-binding activities. Humans are thus made untrue to "human nature." … The conception of man as a mixture of animal and supernatural has for ages kept human beings under the deadly spell of the suggestion that, animal selfishness and animal greediness are their essential character, and the spell has operated to suppress their REAL HUMAN NATURE and to prevent it from expressing itself naturally and freely.
Источник: Человечество человечности (Manhood of Humanity, 1921), p. 71, та же глава
Коржибски, Альфред знаменитые цитаты
Человечество человечности (Manhood of Humanity, 1921)
To regard human beings as tools — as instruments — for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker — they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
Источник: Человечество человечности (Manhood of Humanity, 1921), p. 133. Глава: Капиталистическая эра
Это отрицательное утверждение является окончательным, поскольку оно отрицательно.
"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
Источник: Наука и здравомыслие (Science and Sanity, 1933), p. 35
„Человечество человечества: наука и искусство человеческой инженерии“
Manhood of Humanity https://archive.org/details/manhoodofhumanit00korziala: The Science and Art of Human Engineering. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1921.
Человечество человечности (Manhood of Humanity, 1921)
Этот фатальный первый вывод, достигнутый ложной аналогией, пренебрегая фактом, был основным источником человеческих бед в течение полумиллиона лет, и он все еще выживает. <…> Он [тогда] сказал себе: «Если я животное, то и во мне есть что-то более высокое, искра какой-то сверхъестественной».
Let us imagine that the aboriginal-original human specimen was one of two brother apes, A and B; they were alike in every respect; both were animal space-binders; but something strange happened to B; he became the first time-binder, a human. … He had thus a new faculty, he belonged to a new dimension; but, of course, he did not realize it; and because he had this new capacity he was able to analyze his brother "A"; he observed "A is my brother; he is an animal; but he is my brother; therefore, I AM AN ANIMAL." This fatal first conclusion, reached by false analogy, by neglecting a fact, has been the chief source of human woe for half a million years and it still survives. … He [then] said to himself, "If I am an animal there is also in me something higher, a spark of some thing supernatural."
Источник: Человечество человечности (Manhood of Humanity, 1921), p. 67. Глава: Что такое Человек?
Коржибски, Альфред цитаты
Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
Источник: Наука и здравомыслие (Science and Sanity, 1933), p. 64
The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
Издание: Institute of General Semantics, 1995, p. 58.
Наука и здравомыслие (Science and Sanity, 1933)
Наука и здравомыслие (Science and Sanity, 1933)
The only link between the verbal and objective world is exclusively structural, necessitating the conclusion that the only content of all "knowledge" is structural. Now structure can be considered as a complex of relations, and ultimately as multi-dimensional order. From this point of view, all language can be considered as names for unspeakable entities on the objective level, be it things or feelings, or as names of relations. In fact <…> we find that an object represents an abstraction of a low order produced by our nervous system as the result of a sub-microscopic events acting as stimuli upon the nervous system.
Источник: Наука и здравомыслие (Science and Sanity, 1933), p. 20
Человечество человечности (Manhood of Humanity, 1921)
Человечество человечности (Manhood of Humanity, 1921)
Коржибски, Альфред: Цитаты на английском языке
Источник: Science and Sanity (1933), p. 64.
Контексте: Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
Источник: Science and Sanity (1933), p. 20.
Контексте: The only link between the verbal and objective world is exclusively structural, necessitating the conclusion that the only content of all "knowledge" is structural. Now structure can be considered as a complex of relations, and ultimately as multi-dimensional order. From this point of view, all language can be considered as names for unspeakable entities on the objective level, be it things or feelings, or as names of relations. In fact... we find that an object represents an abstraction of a low order produced by our nervous system as the result of a sub-microscopic events acting as stimuli upon the nervous system.
“Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.”
Источник: Science and Sanity (1933), p. 35.
Контексте: "Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
Источник: Manhood of Humanity (1921), p. 133. Chapter: Capitalistic Era.
Контексте: To regard human beings as tools — as instruments — for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker — they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
Источник: Manhood of Humanity (1921), p. 136. Chapter: Capitalistic Era.
Контексте: Such as contribute most to human progress and human enlightenment — men like Gutenberg, Copernicus, Newton, Leibnitz, Watts, Franklin, Mendeleieff, Pasteur, Sklodowska-Curie, Edison, Steinmetz, Loeb, Dewey, Keyser, Whitehead, Russell, Poincaré, William Benjamin Smith, Gibbs, Einstein, and many others — consume no more bread than the simplest of their fellow mortals. Indeed such men are often in want. How many a genius has perished inarticulate because unable to stand the strain of social conditions where animal standards prevail and "survival of the fittest" means, not survival of the "fittest in time-binding capacity," but survival of the strongest in ruthlessness and guile — in space-binding competition!
“Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings.”
Источник: Manhood of Humanity (1921), p. 71. Chapter: What is Man?
Контексте: Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. One has to stop and think! There is nothing mystical about the fact that ideas and words are energies which powerfully affect the physico-chemical base of our time-binding activities. Humans are thus made untrue to "human nature." … The conception of man as a mixture of animal and supernatural has for ages kept human beings under the deadly spell of the suggestion that, animal selfishness and animal greediness are their essential character, and the spell has operated to suppress their REAL HUMAN NATURE and to prevent it from expressing itself naturally and freely.
Источник: Science and Sanity (1933), p. 20.
Контексте: The only link between the verbal and objective world is exclusively structural, necessitating the conclusion that the only content of all "knowledge" is structural. Now structure can be considered as a complex of relations, and ultimately as multi-dimensional order. From this point of view, all language can be considered as names for unspeakable entities on the objective level, be it things or feelings, or as names of relations. In fact... we find that an object represents an abstraction of a low order produced by our nervous system as the result of a sub-microscopic events acting as stimuli upon the nervous system.
Источник: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Источник: Science and Sanity (1933), p. 73.
Источник: Manhood of Humanity (1921), p. 67. Chapter: What is Man?
Источник: Science and Sanity (1933), p. vii, as cited in: Schaff (1962;91)
Источник: Science and Sanity (1933), p. 222.
Edition:Institute of General Semantics, 1995, p. 58.
Science and Sanity (1933)