All Gregory Bateson Quotes
- All experience is subjective. All
- 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… Accurate
- 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… All
- Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. Always Better
- 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… Adjectives
- Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. Every Move
- 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.… Affirmation
- 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… Almost Useless
- Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. Attitude
- The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. Difference
- Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature,… All
- 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… Approaching
- Information is a difference that makes a difference. Difference
- Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. Alive
- Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. Any
- It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. Anthropologist
- Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. Cause
- It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. Any
- Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Any
- Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. Cause