There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that … - Gregory Bateson

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But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

Gregory Bateson

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

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Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

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