Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTIf 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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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 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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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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