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Gregory Bateson Quote: “It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.”

51. “It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “The psychedelics are a powerful educational tool. They are the surest way to learn the arbitrariness of our ordinary perception. Many of us have had to use them to find out how little we knew.”

52. “The psychedelics are a powerful educational tool. They are the surest way to learn the arbitrariness of our ordinary perception. Many of us have had to use them to find out how little we knew.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong.”

54. “We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life.”

55. “A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.”

56. “Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.”

57. “There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “Let’s not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.”

58. “Let’s not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.”

60. “It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.”

61. “In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “Things have to be done fast in America, and therefore therapy has to be brief.”

62. “Things have to be done fast in America, and therefore therapy has to be brief.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.”

63. “Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Gregory Bateson

$Gregory Bateson Quote: “It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an ‘invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things’?”$

65. “It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an ‘invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things’?”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.”

66. “We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.”

— Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson Quote: “Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.”

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

— Gregory Bateson

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