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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.

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A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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