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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
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Grantchester
Cambridgeshire
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Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.
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There are no monotone values in biology.
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Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
Gregory Bateson
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
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Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.
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A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
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The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
Gregory Bateson
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
After mastery comes artistry and not before.
Gregory Bateson
We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.
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The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.
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We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.
Gregory Bateson
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.
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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
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.
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Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
Gregory Bateson
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.
Gregory Bateson
Multiple descriptions are better than one.
Gregory Bateson
