I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

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.

Once a month, for one evening, we are free to wear our natural skins. We are on the outside as we are internally.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.

There is no more fulfilling experience in all the world than the sense that God's Spirit has taken you and dared to use you for His glory.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

I'm a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.