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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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