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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

Topics: About Future Future Generations Generations How Live Only Save Seeing Species The Only Thing Thing Thinking Us Way

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We are what we love.

~Erik Erikson

Topics: Love

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

~Erik Erikson

Topics: Cannot Entirely Historians History Leave Observers Professional We Cannot

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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

Topics: Ashamed Destroy Exposure Eyes Force He Him His Like Look Notice Who World Would

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A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

~Erik Erikson

Topics: Conflicts He Man Really Represent

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Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

~Erik Erikson

Topics: Adult Against Child Defeats Elite Every Follower Forms He His Leader Mass Measured Member Mind Once Sense Small Triumphs Whether Will

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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

Topics: Able Almost Also Certain Child Conviction Deep Doing Guiding Meaning Must Only Parents Permission Prohibition Represent Ways

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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.

~Erik Erikson

Topics: Always Better Dim Homage Inclusive Knowledge Leaders Mankind Men Most Paying Purest Rules Shown Simplest Taught Those Who

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

~Erik Erikson

Topics: Accept Face Fact Got Law Learn Life Slowly You

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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

Topics: Babies Baby Being Bring Brings Brought Control Controlled Fact Families Family Him In Fact Much Them Up

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: June 15th, 1902

Died: May 12th, 1994

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