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.
GORDON ALLPORTExtreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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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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