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“If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.”
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“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.”
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“Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.”
― Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
― Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
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