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.
GORDON ALLPORTThwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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