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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.

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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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