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Rather, for all objects and e...

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.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Number is different from quan...

Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

We are discovering today that...

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

What is true is that the idea...

What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

No organism can afford to be ...

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Most of us have lost that sen...

Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty. Most of us do not today believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Schizophrenia --its nature, e...

Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Somebody was saying to Picass...

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure what that would be. The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She is rather small, isn't she? And flat?"

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

People are going to have to m...

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Some tools of thought are so ...

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Yes, metaphor. That's how the...

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Multiple descriptions are bet...

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Every move we make in fear of...

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

It is, I claim, nonsense to s...

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Numbers are the product of co...

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

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Money is always transitively ...

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

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It is to the Riddle of the Sp...

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

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We do not know enough about h...

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

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Science, like art, religion, ...

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Logic can often be reversed, ...

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

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