Let's Not Pretend That Mental Phenomena Can

The Map Is Not The Territory (coined By Alfred Korzybski), And The Name Is Not The Thing Named.

The Only Way Out Is Spiritual, Intellectual, And Emotional Revolution In Which, Finally, We Learn To Experience First Hand The Interloping Connections Between Person And Person, Organism And Organism, Action And Consequence.

Whenever We Pride Ourselves Upon Finding A Newer, Stricter Way Of Thought Or Exposition … We Lose Something Of The Ability To Think New Thoughts. And Equally, Of Course, Whenever We Rebel Against The Sterile Rigidity Of Formal Thought And Exposition And Let Our Ideas Run Wild, We Likewise Lose. As I See It, The Advances In Scientific Thought Come From A Combination Of Lose And Strict Thinking, And This Combination Is The Most Precious Tool Of Science.

Most Of Us Have Lost That Sense Of Unity Of Biosphere And Humanity Which Would Bind And Reassure Us All With An Affirmation Of Beauty. Most Of Us Do Not Today Believe That Whatever The Ups And Down Of Detail Within Our Limited Experience, The Larger Whole Is Primarily Beautiful.

Money Is Always Transitively Valued. More Money Is Supposedly Always Better Than Less Money.