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Walden Two
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"Walden Two" Quotes

A behavioral psychologist creates an ideal community based on his principles of behaviorism.

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We do not strive for happiness, we strive for competence.

B.F. Skinner

lifehappiness

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

B.F. Skinner

lifework

The real issue is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B.F. Skinner

technologyhumanity

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

B.F. Skinner

belieftruth

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

B.F. Skinner

attitudechange

The self is more or less an illusion; it is not a thing, but a process.

B.F. Skinner

selfidentity

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

B.F. Skinner

perceptionawareness

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

B.F. Skinner

selfdestiny

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

B.F. Skinner

artreality

When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires.

B.F. Skinner

satisfactiondesire