Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
GORDON ALLPORTGiven a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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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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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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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