Best Infantile Quotes
63 Infantile quotes by 59 unique authors
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The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated…
— John Barth
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This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving…
— Jim Harrison
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Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.
— Wilhelm Stekel
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The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a…
— Eric Hoffer
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Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from…
— Sigmund Freud
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Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
— J. G. Ballard
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.
— Ezra Pound
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The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
— David Chase
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Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.
— Slick Rick
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
— Robert Wyatt
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The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.
— Robert Briffault
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One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip…
— Chuck D
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United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
— John Ralston Saul
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
— Albert J. Nock
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Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the…
— Criss Jami
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though…
— Saul Bellow
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Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert…
— George Steiner
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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
— Aleister Crowley
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
— Albert Einstein
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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 reality…
— Bill Maher
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
— Voltaire
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by…
— Richard Dawkins
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Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I…
— Ingmar Bergman
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