Life is too short so we must generalize.
GORDON ALLPORTIf 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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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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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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 scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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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