Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
GORDON ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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