Author: Gregory Bateson

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Gregory Bateson

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

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

- Gregory Bateson

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

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

- Gregory Bateson

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

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

- Gregory Bateson

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

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

- Gregory Bateson

All experience is subjective.

All experience is subjective.

- Gregory Bateson

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

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

- Gregory Bateson

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.

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.

- Gregory Bateson

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