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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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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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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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