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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.