The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 193 of 254

Character without consistency is not character

If character doesn’t mean the tendency to display the same kind of traits across different situations, then it means nothing. Character without consistency is not character at all. There is clearly something to this, but one can still ask how much consistency character requires. As I’ve said, no one expects complete consistency.

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