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

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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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