Author: Gregory Bateson

Quotes

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

- 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.

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

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

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

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

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

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

- Gregory Bateson

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