Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
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Famous Gregory Bateson Quotes
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
“Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.”
“The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.”
“All experience is subjective.”
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
“Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.”
“Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.”
Source: Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred
“The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.”
“It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.”
“Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.”
“Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.”
“Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.”
“The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.”
“Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.”
Source: Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred
“We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.”
Source: Rigor & imagination: essays from the legacy of Gregory Bateson