Alfred Korzybski Quotes

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

Without geography you're nowhere.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

We were just looking at maps.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

History is not intelligible without geography.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.