The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
GORDON ALLPORTEach person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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