Gregory Bateson

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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Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Number is different from quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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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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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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All experience is subjective. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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

— 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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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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