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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.

– Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

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

Erik Erikson

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

Erik Erikson

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

– Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

– Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

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

Erik Erikson

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

– Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

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

Erik Erikson

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

Erik Erikson

Doubt is the brother of shame.

– Erik Erikson

Erik Erikson

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

Erik Erikson

A man’s conflicts represent what he ‘really’ is.

– Erik Erikson

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