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In no system which shows ment...

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.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

The meaning of your communica...

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

A man walking is never in bal...

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

What we mean by information -...

What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

There are many matters and ma...

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Whenever we pride ourselves u...

Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition ? we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Without context words and act...

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

If a man achieves or suffers ...

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Science, like art, religion, ...

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in that not only are the pathways of scientific thought determined by the presuppositions of the scientists but their goals are the testing and revision of old presuppositions and the creation of new.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Creative thought must always ...

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

The map is not the territory ...

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

The rules of the universe tha...

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Surrender to alcohol intoxica...

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Desired substance, things, pa...

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.

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Perhaps there is no such thin...

Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he causes things to happen... it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

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

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

Official education was telling...

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

It takes two to know one....

It takes two to know one.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

After mastery comes artistry a...

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

A man walking is never in bala...

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

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