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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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 there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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