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The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

What is familiar tends to become a value.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.