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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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?
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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Adolescence Adult However Include Life Love Loyalty Onward Personality Surets
We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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