More quotes by Gregory Bateson
Things have to be done fast in America, and therefore therapy has to be brief.
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named (see also, Alfred Korzybski).
The world partly becomes — comes to be — how it is imagined.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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