It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
GORDON ALLPORTAnd sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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