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.
GORDON ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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 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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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