“I am endlessly fighting a battle with people you know, who want to throw the intellect out and think of knowing with the heart. And whenever you fight that battle, then you sound like an intellectual. When I meet intellectuals, I find myself fighting the opposit battle.”

— Gregory Bateson.

“Change, may be scary. But not changing, is even scarier. Our ability to remain stable is ironically a measure of our flexibility. Not allowing change is the perfect formula for becoming obsolete.”

— Nora Bateson, in “An Ecology of Mind”.

“Those moments of being able to say, ‘I used to think it was like this, but I am starting to think it might be like this.’ That was a way of saying I learnt something.”

— Nora Bateson, in “An Ecology of Mind”.

“A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.”

— Gregory Bateson.

“What pattern connects the crab to the lobster, and the orchid to the primrose, and all the four of them to me? And me to you?”

— Gregory Bateson.