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. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The processes of perception are inaccessible only the products are conscious and, of course, it is the products that are necessary. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Number is different from quantity. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
All experience is subjective. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
From the point of view of any agent who imposes a quantitative change, any change of pattern which may occur will be unpredictable or divergent. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Of all these examples, the simplest but the most profound is the fact that it takes at least two somethings to create a difference. - Gregory Bateson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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