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Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a…

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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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Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there… — Gregory Bateson
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