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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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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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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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