Gregory Bateson Quotes

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody believes in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster.

It takes two to know one.

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