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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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 not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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 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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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