Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him. Erik Erikson Read Quote
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind. Erik Erikson Read Quote
He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world. Erik Erikson Read Quote
Man’s true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. Erik Erikson Read Quote
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge. Erik Erikson Read Quote
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing. Erik Erikson Read Quote
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. Erik Erikson Read Quote
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don’t get wise, but you don’t get wise unless you age. Erik Erikson Read Quote
