Primarily Beautiful Quotes by Gregory Bateson

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Gregory Bateson has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• All experience is subjective.
• Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there…
• Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To…
• Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
• To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two…
• Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
• Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an…
• Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the…
• Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
• The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
• Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions…
• There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used…

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