Gregory Bateson

"Evolution is a process of acquiring information and storing it."

"We are living in a world made largely of ideas and symbolism."

"The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself."

"Form and substance are one."

"The path to wisdom begins with the recognition of one's own ignorance."

"Information is a difference that makes a difference."

"We are patterns that call themselves individual, localized in space and time."

"The system will always be self-correcting if allowed to be so."

"Learning is change in the organism produced by the organism's interaction with the environment."

"Every organism is a system of systems, each system a system of systems."

"The mind is not located in the brain but distributed through the entire organism."

"There is no objective reality, only the reality we construct through our interactions."

"To understand something, you must participate in it."

"The great intellectual task is to make sense of complexity without losing the sense of mystery."

"Consciousness cannot exist without unconsciousness."

"We are slaves to our symbols."

"The most important thing to know about any system is its pattern of organization."

"Art is the communication of truth."

"The dance of life is written in the language of mathematics."

"To love without judgment is to love truly."

"The break in the circuit is where learning begins."

"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution."

"We cannot know the world without changing it, and we cannot change it without being changed by it."

"The ultimate creative mystery is how something from nothing."

"Mind is the integrative mechanism of the system."

"Truth is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

"The unit of analysis is not the individual but the system."

"What is sacred is the pattern of connection between all things."

"Healing is not about fixing what's broken; it's about restoring the pattern of the whole."

"The future is present in our choices now."