Quotes by : Gregory Bateson

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

All experience is subjective.

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

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

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation....

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....