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

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.

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.

Oh, yeah, that goatee is really unattractive. That definitely belongs on a much fatter man.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

I'm a believer in the Tea Party. I love the Tea Party. I love the people in the Tea Party. And, yes, I have a lot of different likes and maybe dislikes. And I don't know why.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

Beauty lies within a person that is willing to do anything for their love, love is beauty within the heart.

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.