Gregory Bateson
Found 11 thoughts of Gregory Bateson
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
Gregory Bateson
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
Gregory Bateson
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
Gregory Bateson
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
Gregory Bateson
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
Gregory Bateson
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
Gregory Bateson
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
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
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
Gregory Bateson
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
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Gregory Bateson
