It Is Now No Mystery That Some

If We, Who Live Outside Asylums, Act As If We Lived In A Fictitious World- That Is To Say, If We Are Consistent With Our Beliefs- We Cannot Adjust Ourselves To Actual Conditions, And So Fall Into Many Avoidable Semantic Difficulties. But The So-called Normal Person Practically Never Abides By His Beliefs, And When His Beliefs Are Building For Him A Fictitious World, He Saves His Neck By Not Abiding By Them. A So-called "insane" Person Acts Upon His Beliefs, And So Cannot Adjust Himself To A World Which Is Quite Different From His Fancy.

Riches I Need Not, Nor Man's Empty Praise.

There Are Two Ways To Slice Easily Thorugh Life; To Believe Everything Or To Doubt Everything. Both Ways Save Us From Thinking.

The Map Is Not The Territory, The Word Is Not The Thing It Describes. Whenever The Map Is Confused With The Territory, A 'semantic Disturbance' Is Set Up In The Organism. The Disturbance Continues Until The Limitation Of The Map Is Recognized.

It Seems Evident That Everything Which Exists In Nature, Is Natural, No Matter How Simple Or Complicated A Phenomenon It Is; And On No Occasion Can The So-called 'supernatural' Be Anything Else Than A Completely Natural Law, Though It May, At The Moment, Be Above And Beyond The Present Understanding.