Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don’t let me hear a word about the rest


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…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosop...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) W...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original...
ALFRED JARRY
It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
ALFRED AUSTIN
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
ALFRED BRENDEL
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to c...
ALFRED ADLER
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its o...
ALFRED ADLER
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by...
ALFRED KASTLER
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilize...
ALFRED NOBEL
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevi...
ALFRED ADLER
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, ...
ALFRED NOBEL
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir...
ALFRED ENOCH
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit...
ALFRED ADLER
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
ALFRED ADLER
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and dif...
ALFRED NOBEL
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
ALFRED MARSHALL
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
ALFRED MARSHALL
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL