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The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.
Gregory Bateson
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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
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Science probes it does not prove.
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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.
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.
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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.
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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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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.
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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
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Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
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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.
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A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
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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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Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
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We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong
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Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
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I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'
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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.
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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.
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