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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return ... — Mary Catherine Bateson

Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub. — Mary Catherine Bateson

When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain. — Gregory Bateson

Number is different from quantity. — Gregory Bateson

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. — Mary Catherine Bateson

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself. — Gregory Bateson

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else. — Gregory Bateson

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance. — Gregory Bateson

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. — Mary Catherine Bateson

I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares. — William Bateson

Treasure your exceptions. — William Bateson

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. — Mary Catherine Bateson

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others. — Mary Catherine Bateson

We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong — Gregory Bateson

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind. — Gregory Bateson

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you? — Gregory Bateson

Information is a difference that makes a difference. — Gregory Bateson

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. — Gregory Bateson

Science probes; it does not prove. — Gregory Bateson

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. — Gregory Bateson

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. — Mary Catherine Bateson

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named. — Gregory Bateson

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception. — Gregory Bateson

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened. — Gregory Bateson

All experience is subjective. — Gregory Bateson

The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of
course you never do. — Gregory Bateson

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all — Gregory Bateson

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Active wisdom
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52] — Mary Catherine Bateson

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. — Gregory Bateson

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. — Gregory Bateson

Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief. — Gregory Bateson

There are no monotone "values" in biology. — Gregory Bateson

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. — Gregory Bateson

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. — Gregory Bateson

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. — Mary Catherine Bateson

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training. — Mary Catherine Bateson

It takes two to know one. — Gregory Bateson

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Multiple descriptions are better than one. — Gregory Bateson

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. — Mary Catherine Bateson

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. — Gregory Bateson

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity. — Gregory Bateson

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how. — Gregory Bateson

Information consists of differences that make a difference. — Gregory Bateson

The meaning of your communication is the response you get. — Gregory Bateson

We never promised we would stay the same,/But only we would shape our change/From this now single clay.[p. 82] — Mary Catherine Bateson

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — 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. — Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson said, "The source of all our problems today comes from the gap between how we think and how nature works. — Anonymous

Sharing is sometimes
more demanding than giving. — Mary Catherine Bateson

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. — Gregory Bateson

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored. — Gregory Bateson

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole. — Gregory Bateson

We are water. We are air. We grow, we bloom, we seed, we wilt, we die. There is a false separation between humanity and nature. Of — Nora Bateson

Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship. — Gregory Bateson

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. — Gregory Bateson

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. — Mary Catherine Bateson

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. — Mary Catherine Bateson

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — Gregory Bateson

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. — Mary Catherine Bateson

After mastery comes artistry and not before. — Gregory Bateson

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. — Gregory Bateson

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think — Gregory Bateson

Creative thought must always contain a random component. — Gregory Bateson

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them. — Gregory Bateson

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes. — Gregory Bateson