Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTAnd sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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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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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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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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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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