It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals…
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. -Friedrich Hegel.
Communication leads to community, that
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. -R May
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produ
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. -Russell
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.- David Viscott
Everyone who becomes conscious of even a fraction of his unc
Everyone who becomes conscious of even a fraction of his unconscious gets outside of social stratum into a kind of solitude – Carl Jung
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.” B. F. Skinner
The only way to tell whether a given event is reinforcing to a given organism under given conditions is to make a direct test.
“The only way to tell whether a given event is reinforcing to a given organism under given conditions is to make a direct test....
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is...
The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called ‘conditioning’
“The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called ‘conditioning’. In operant conditioning we ‘strengthen’ an operant in the sense of making...