"The American feels too rich in his opportunities……" — Erik Erikson
"The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them."
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25 Quotes by Erik Erikson
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Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child…
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is…
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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
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We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
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I am what survives of me.
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