Gregory Bateson

"The artist perceives what others have not yet learned to see."

"Humor is the recognition of incongruity in expected patterns."

"Beauty whispers the secrets that truth sometimes cannot speak aloud."

"The self emerges through relationship with the not-self."

"Learning is the process of becoming attuned to new patterns."

"Knowledge without love is merely information."

"The future belongs to those who can perceive patterns others cannot yet see."

"Every ending contains within it the beginning of a new pattern."

"To heal is to restore the proper flow of information through broken systems."

"The greatest discoveries come from asking questions about assumed answers."

"In the dance of life and mind, all participants are both teacher and student."

"What we call reality is the intersection of observed pattern and observer expectation."

"The map of a territory can never be more than partially accurate or true."

"The pattern which connects all living things is a mathematical pattern."

"We are not thinking computers, we are feeling organisms."

"The test of intelligence is not how much you know, but how you behave when you don't know."

"Dare to be naïve."

"The world is made of information and the information is made of bits."

"It is impossible to be fully conscious of things as they are while you are thinking about them."

"The differences that make a difference are the only differences that matter."

"Every act is an act of self-definition."

"The cybernetics of living systems is the study of circular causal systems in living organisms."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

"The problem of how we know anything at all is the problem of how we know anything about the external world."

"In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole."

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the whole picture of the universe."

"The unit of evolution is the organism plus its environment."

"A man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore in learning about himself he learns about the universe and in learning about the universe he learns about himself."

"All communication has redundancy, and all communication depends on redundancy."

"The map is not the territory."