He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

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.

The map is not the territory.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Words don't mean, people mean.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life.

We created Brave wherever we were brave.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.