Creative Quotations from . . . We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship. We find it hard to believe that other people' s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
Partisanship is our great curse.
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