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Man Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
- The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
- Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons…
- When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
- I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of…
- We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
- Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
- The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid…
- Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is…
- The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
- A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for…
- The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to…
- In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to…
- To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he…
- No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle