#ff

Number is different from quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#number #quantity

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#answer #answers #difficulty #forms #given

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#does #effect #logic #often #precede

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#deserts #education #forests #nature #nothing

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care. ↗

— Max Baucus

#american #care #every #health #health care

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #committed #effort #evil #fatally

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#bad #bad taste #exhilarating #giving #offense

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#conscience #deep #deep down #down #even

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#believes #beneath #death #deep #deep down

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#different #different way #duty #i #i think