Infantile Quotes

63 quotes by 59 authors

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas… — Karen Armstrong
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… — Olive Schreiner
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to… — Karen Horney
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is… — Frederick Salomon Perls
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome.… — John C. McGinley
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest… — G. E. M. Anscombe
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and… — James A. Baldwin
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which… — John Updike
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People… — Joseph de Maistre
Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of… — Henry Rollins
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. — John Lithgow
I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It feels… — Ron James
One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball… — Mike Tyson
What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we… — Carlos Castaneda
The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice. — Jim Harrison
For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them. — Frantz Fanon
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. — Terence McKenna
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer. — Ivor Novello

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