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Number is different from quantity.
— Gregory 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
The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do. — Gregory Bateson
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
— Gregory Bateson
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong
— 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
Science probes; it does not prove.
— Gregory Bateson
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
— 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 rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
— Gregory Bateson
Without context words and actions have no meaning at all
— Gregory 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
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
— Gregory Bateson
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
— Gregory Bateson
The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
— Gregory Bateson
Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.
— Gregory Bateson
Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.
— 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
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
— Gregory Bateson
The meaning of your communication is the response you get.
— Gregory Bateson
Information consists of differences that make a difference.
— Gregory Bateson
Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
— Gregory Bateson
Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.
— Gregory Bateson
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
— Gregory Bateson
Multiple descriptions are better than one.
— Gregory Bateson
It takes two to know one.
— Gregory Bateson
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
— Gregory Bateson
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
— Gregory Bateson
People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
— Gregory Bateson
Creative thought must always contain a random component.
— 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
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
— Gregory Bateson
After mastery comes artistry and not before.
— Gregory Bateson
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
— Gregory Bateson
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
— Gregory Bateson
Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.
— Gregory Bateson
Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.
— Gregory Bateson
