Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
GORDON ALLPORTEach 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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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