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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

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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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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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