The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONHuman beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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