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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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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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