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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Best Comprise Form Give Love Receive Therapy
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Doubt Fashion Mature Ordinarily Religious Sentiment Workshop
Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Character Condition Country Hate Live Most People Person
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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Country Equation Heroism Intellectual Nothing Out People Wrote Rarer Require Willingness Written
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Generalize Life Must Short
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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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