If You're Old, Don't Try

To Say That A Man Is Sinful Because He Sins Is To Give An Operational Definition Of Sin. To Say That He Sins Because He Is Sinful Is To Trace His Behavior To A Supposed Inner Trait. But Whether Or Not A Person Engages In The Kind Of Behavior Called Sinful Depends Upon Circumstances Which Are Not Mentioned In Either Question. The Sin Assigned As An Inner Possession (the Sin A Person "knows") Is To Be Found In A History Of Reinforcement.

I Don't Believe In God, So I'm Not Afraid Of Dying.

To Say That... Behaviors Have Different 'meanings' Is Only Another Way Of Saying That They Are Controlled By Different Variables.

Twenty-five Hundred Years Ago It Might Have Been Said That Man Understood Himself As Well As Any Other Part Of The World. Today He Is The Thing He Understands Least.

A Piece Of Music Is An Experience To Be Taken By Itself.