"Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss,……" — Gregory Bateson
"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 thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology."
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Gregory Bateson
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46 Quotes by Gregory Bateson
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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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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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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
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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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