The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
GORDON ALLPORTThe mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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 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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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