From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
GORDON ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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