Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a…

“Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.”

— Elle Casey

Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.

— Carole Radziwill

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Metaphysics, said the late nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Bradley, is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct; but metaphysics has changed…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash of class…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“In behaviorism, an infant's talents and abilities didn't matter because there was no such thing as a talent or an ability. Watson had banned…

— Steven Pinker

Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief…

— Henry M. Morris

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious…

— B. F. Skinner

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had…

— Michio Kaku

Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something…

— Anonymous

“One may take the line that metaphorical devices are inevitable in the early stages of any science and that although we may look with…

— B.F. Skinner

“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov believed that…

— Thomas Pynchon

The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must…

— B. F. Skinner

You do research into specific occupations of the character, with specific behaviorisms that their daily life might give them. You do as much research…

— Guy Burnet