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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.

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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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