We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.
Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said. . . One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.
Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.