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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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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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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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