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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Consider Mindedness Occur Open Speak Stricly Virtue
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Ashamed Eliminate People Prejudices Road Well
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Become Discover Knowledge Look Needle Ourselves Outline Psychology Supplies Uniqueness
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Commitment Create Fewer More Nature never Question Scientist Very Way
[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Become Expose Knowledge Prejudice President Reversible
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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Adapt Belief Impulse Real Realization Reason World
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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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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Answer Indeed Intellectual Maturity Measure Philosopher Problem Suggest
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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Assignment Assume Comfort Easy Know Much Ourselves Really Score Since Think Time
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Best Comprise Form Give Love Receive Therapy
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Expose Knowledge New Only Prejudgement Prejudice Reversible

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