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

Psychology Possibility Personality Becoming Personality Theory

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.”

Psychology Possibility Personality Becoming Personality Theory

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.”

Psychology Possibility Personality Becoming Personality Theory

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.”

Science Psychology Possibility Personality Becoming Future Personality Theory

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.”

Man S Search For Meaning

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