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 ALLPORTIndeed 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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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 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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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