Quotes by : Gregory Bateson

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

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

All experience is subjective.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily beautiful.....

We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into commerce....

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as....

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores,....

We commonly speak as though a single 'thing' could 'have' some characteristic. A stone, we say, is 'hard,'....

Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own....