Philosophy Quotes

"The mind is not interested in objective reality; it is interested in a consistent self."

"Our beliefs are not conclusions we reach; they are conclusions we defend."

"We become the authors of our own beliefs through the actions we take."

"The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by."

"In our society, we have made convenience our primary value, at the expense of meaning."

"The innermost core of man's nature, the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his animal nature - is positive in nature."

"The questions which the human being asks are the most important symptoms of his nature."

"The condition of being human is so rich that the moment we try to categorize or limit it, we lose something essential."

"The line between good and evil is permeable, and almost everyone has the capacity to cross it when the situation demands."

"Philosophy is not abstract; it is how we live when we pay attention to our choices."

"Habit is the flywheel of civilization."

"Freedom is an illusion created by those unaware of their conditioning."

"Society's rules are simply learned behavioral patterns."

"Modern psychology must abandon the ghost in the machine."

"Thoughts themselves are nothing but internal behavioral responses."

"The so-called soul is merely complex behavior."

"The self is simply the totality of learned behaviors."

"The unexamined behavior is the life not worth living."

"The capacity for man to abandon his humanity is perhaps the most disturbing finding of our research."

"The human being is not autonomous in moral behavior as we would like to believe."

"We are all potential instruments of authority if social conditions permit."

"Human nature is more malleable under social pressure than we care to admit."

"Responsibility and authority are inversely related in the human mind."

"The subjects in our experiments were not sadists or psychopaths but ordinary citizens."

"The fundamental question is not why people obey, but why anyone resists at all."

"Understanding obedience illuminates the human condition itself."

"The majority opinion is a fact about social reality, not about objective reality."

"The human being is a fundamentally social animal, yet capable of unsocial thinking."

"Belonging to a group need not mean believing what the group believes."

"We are simultaneously more individual and more social than our psychological theories suggest."