“A language is a map of our failures”
“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.”
“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ”
“Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow.”
“Korzybski argued that language must be viewed as a map, which is useful only insofar as it is similar to the world it describes. He stressed the importance of questioning the unconscious assumptions built into our language, and urged a response to life on the basis of fresh, "first order" experience rather than the old experiences that have been crystallized in words and concepts.”
“Our losses become the road maps for our future.”