Human mind Quote by Alfred Adler

The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux,…

— Alfred Adler

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the…

— Alison Lurie

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that…

— Philip Wylie

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and…

— William Godwin

“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little kids can’t…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

— Johan Huizinga

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

— Brennan Manning

“Upon watching a young child do, explore, or create something, you are witnessing an unconditioned essential spirit willing itself into direct action towards a…

— Garry Fitchett

It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to…

— Selma Fraiberg

The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course…

— Selma Fraiberg

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

— Anonymous

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor…

— Peter Matthiessen