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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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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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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.
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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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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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