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After mastery comes artistry and not before.
Gregory Bateson
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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
Anthropologist
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Film Director
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Grantchester
Cambridgeshire
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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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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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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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In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.
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Science probes it does not prove.
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A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
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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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No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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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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Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.
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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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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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Information is a difference that makes a difference.
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The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.
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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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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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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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