There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

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.

We learn from trials and errors.

The last time I checked, I didn't have any special talent, thought Kara.Can I paint a demon to death?Drown it in some gouache?

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.

Impairment of fertility in both men and women because of hypothyroidism is firmly entrenched in medical literature...Miscarriage and fertility problems are a red flag for hypothyroidism.

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.