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To think straight, it is advis...

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

No organism can afford to be c...

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Perhaps there is no such thing...

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

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

Most of us have lost that sens...

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

Some tools of thought are so b...

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

A major difficulty is that the...

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Whatever the ups and downs of ...

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

The major problems in the worl...

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

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

There are no monotone 'values...

There are no monotone 'values' in biology.

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

Life and 'Mind' are systemic p...

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

The meaning of your communicat...

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Multiple descriptions are bett...

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Numbers are the product of cou...

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. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

The only way out is spiritual,...

The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

Without context words and acti...

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

People are going to have to ma...

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

Gregory Bateson 97 quotes

In no system which shows menta...

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

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