Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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