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 ALLPORTThere 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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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