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.

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.

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 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 there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

Radicals can be found in any environment.