Gregory Bateson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.”

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

“Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.”

“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.”

“If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.”

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

“Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.”

“All experience is subjective.”