Home / Quotes / Quote by B. F. Skinner

Quote by B. F. Skinner

“Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.”

Quote by B. F. Skinner

Book:WALDEN TWO

Work

Walden Two is a novel that delves into the concept of creating an ideal society through controlled social experiments. The story follows a group of individuals who live in a planned community designed to embody the principles of a perfect society. The book examines the challenges and successes of this utopian endeavor, offering a critical look at the potential and limitations of human society. more

Author

B. F. Skinner was an American psychologist known for his work on operant conditioning and behavior modification. He developed the science of behaviorism and his research had a significant impact on education, psychology, and other fields. more

You May Also Like

“The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.”

People Men Real Government Law Wealth Rich Worst Crime Example Birth Madness Shame Bored Boredom Fancy Cowardice Protected Defects Wretched Monstrous Rich Man Server Aberration

Author:Jean Lorrain

“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”

Stuff Christ Poverty Rich Bored Troubadours Jesus Shock

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.”

Profound Bored Boredom Replaced Anthropocentrism Anthropomorphism

Book:A Philosophy of Boredom

Source: A Philosophy of Boredom

“For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.”

Problem Fundamentals Complexes Mood Bored Boredom Privileged Heidegger

Book:A Philosophy of Boredom

Source: A Philosophy of Boredom

“A utopia cannot, by deﬁnition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.”

Boring Bored Boredom Utopia

Author:Lars Svendsen

“I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.”

Born Scared Complicated Shy Chests Retiring Provocative

Author:Dorothy Allison

“The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.”

Stills Whole Eye Pain Faces Joy Laughter Bored Boredom Indifferent Glances

Author:Malcolm De Chazal

“One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.”

States Impossible Profound Mood Bored Boredom Replaced

Book:A Philosophy of Boredom

Source: A Philosophy of Boredom

“Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.”

Imagination Ignorance Bored Boredom

Book:Anger in the Sky: A Novel

Source: Anger in the Sky: A Novel

“Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?”

Ifs World Made Moments Mother Gone Trouble Exciting Bored Lame Bayonets

Book:The Map of Time: A Novel

Source: The Map of Time: A Novel