"The creature that wins against its environment destroys……" — Gregory Bateson
"The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself."
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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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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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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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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
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God's first creature, which was light.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own…
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth…
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own…
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