Identity is invariably false to facts.

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.

I warned you I like to play games.

Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

The future you see is the future you get.

The Chinese can devalue their currency, apparently without doing much harm to themselves. They can do this as a strategy to destroy our economy in America.