And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
GORDON ALLPORT[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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 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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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