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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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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 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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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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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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