Quote of the Day

“We have been trained to think of patterns, with the exception of those of music, as fixed affairs. It is easier and lazier that way but, of course, all nonsense.” — Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature

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“Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.” — Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature

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“For a man to change the basic beliefs that determine his perception – his epistemological premises – he must first become aware that reality is not necessarily as he believes it to be.” — Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind

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“We create the world that we perceive, not because there is no reality outside our heads, but because we select and edit the reality we see to conform to our beliefs about what sort of world we live in.” — Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind

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“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” — Gregory Bateson, An Ecology of Mind

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“Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.” — Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature