The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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 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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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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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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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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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