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,… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.” — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
