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

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. 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?

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.

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

Life is too short so we must generalize.