Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

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. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.

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. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

Life is too short so we must generalize.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

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