Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst…

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most…

— Margery Wilson

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not.…

— Joseph de Maistre

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said…

— Sigmund Freud

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging…

— Richard Mitchell

I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't…

— Darold Treffert

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond…

— Frantz Fanon

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

— James A. Baldwin

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom,…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where…

— Bill Maher

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys…

— James A. Baldwin

In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as…

— Saul Bellow

“If every day is first day of your life, maybe you are being perpetually infantile.”

— Trixie Koontz

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to…

— John Desmond Bernal

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own…

— David Bentley Hart