The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
Gregory BatesonIn the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
Gregory BatesonThose who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
Gregory BatesonPathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.
Gregory Bateson