The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
GORDON ALLPORTThe mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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