Author: Erik Erikson

Quotes

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

- Erik Erikson

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.

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.

- Erik Erikson

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

- Erik Erikson

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

- Erik Erikson

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

- Erik Erikson

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.

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.

- Erik Erikson

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.

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

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

- Erik Erikson

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

- Erik Erikson

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