"Most of us have lost that sense of……" — Gregory Bateson
"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."
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Gregory Bateson
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46 Quotes by Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson has 46 quotes on this site.
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All experience is subjective.
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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate…
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous.…
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Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
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The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people…
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Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of…
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There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can…
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Information is a difference that makes a difference.
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More Affirmation Quotes
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
— Niels Bohr
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to…
— Muhammad Ali
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
— Muhammad Ali
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
— Leonard Cohen
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Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the…
— Emma Goldman
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Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want…
— Louise Hay
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey…
— Stephen Leacock
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Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all…
— Shakti Gawain
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As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!
— Louise Hay
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I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm.
— Louise Hay
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