“Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.” TwoPoliticalSidesAtheismDutyAssumingCurseTwo SidesPartisanship Book:The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform Source: The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
“We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.” IdeasSelfPassionBeliefAtheismSelf EsteemFilledDearPositive AtheismEsteemThreatenedCompanionshipProposeFormation Book:The Mind in Making Source: The Mind in Making
“Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.” FeelsSelfGroupsAtheismErrorsPositive AtheismAccused Book:The Mind in the Making Source: The Mind in the Making
“We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHardAtheismStupidSillyHard To Believe Book:The Mind in the Making Source: The Mind in the Making
