American - Psychologist | June 15, 1902 - May 12, 1994
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
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The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'
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There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.
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Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
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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.
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A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.
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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.
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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.
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Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
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The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
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Doubt is the brother of shame.
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We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
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