Gregory Bateson

"Every living system is in dialogue with its environment."

"The greatest wisdom is to know that you know nothing."

"To be human is to be caught between multiple realities."

"The pattern that connects us all is love."

"Evolution is not progress but adaptation."

"The self is a fiction created by the mind to organize experience."

"In nature there are no straight lines, only curves."

"Communication is the sine qua non of all social organization."

"The mistake is to think that consciousness is something that happens inside the head."

"Information is action; meaning is relationship."

"Wisdom is knowing the difference between knowledge and understanding."

"The organism is not in the environment; it is part of the environment."

"Beauty is the revelation of pattern."

"All that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing—yet there is no such thing as doing nothing."

"The sacred is to be found in all things if we have eyes to see it."

"To understand anything, you must understand its context."

"Mind and matter are not separate; they are two aspects of the same reality."

"The world is made of stories, not atoms."

"Creativity is not a gift; it's an act of courage."

"Every living system is self-organizing and self-regulating."

"The purpose of science is to make facts, not to explain them."

"We live in layers, each layer meaningful only in relation to the whole."

"The greatest problem in living is that we do not know that we do not know."

"Difference is information; information is difference."

"Art is the natural language of the unconscious mind."

"To love is to allow yourself to be changed by another."

"The path of life is a spiral, not a circle."

"Identity is a process, not a thing."

"In the end, what matters is the quality of the pattern we weave."

"Humor is the ability to see the incongruity in things."