Alfred Korzybski book Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star.”
The Friend, No. 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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