If A Man Achieves Or Suffers Change

A Man Walking Is Never In Balance, But Always Correcting For Imbalance.

The Map Is Not The Territory (coined By Alfred Korzybski), And The Name Is Not The Thing Named.

In No System Which Shows Mental Characteristics Can Any Part Have Unilateral Control Over The Whole. In Other Words, The Mental Characteristics Of The System Are Imminent, Not In Some Part, But In The System As A Whole.

Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or Sequences Of Experience That Are In Some Sense "good" For The Organism - Items Of Diet, Conditions Of Life, Temperature, Entertainment, Sex, And So Forth - Are Never Such That More Of The Something Is Always Better Than Less Of The Something. Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.

We Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future.