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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
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
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 wisdoman 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
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
Sharing is sometimesmore 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