It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
GORDON ALLPORTFrom 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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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