The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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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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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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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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