We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

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 complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.