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“Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.”

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Book:Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

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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 and better problems.”

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Book:Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

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“People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.”

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Book:Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

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“To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.”

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Book:Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

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“It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. 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. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes.”

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Author:Gordon W. Allport