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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
- Gregory Bateson
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We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
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It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
- Gregory Bateson
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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
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Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
- Gregory Bateson
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Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
- Gregory Bateson
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Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
- Gregory Bateson
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It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
- Gregory Bateson
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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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#Nothing
#People
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
- Gregory Bateson
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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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A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
- Gregory Bateson
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It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
- Gregory Bateson
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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
- Gregory Bateson
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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
- Gregory Bateson
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#Generation
#Learning
#Parents
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
- Gregory Bateson
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#Commerce
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All experience is subjective.
- Gregory Bateson
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Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
- Gregory Bateson
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#Interaction
#Language
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