Aging Quote by Olaf Stapledon

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

— Anonymous

“Was it possible that human psychology changed between the years of nine and fifteen? It seemed unlikely. What evolutionary purpose would such a change…

— Conor Kostick

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually.…

— Nathaniel Branden

“study of human nature was in a sorry state. While he had reservations about the ancient philosophers for depending ‘more on Invention than Experience’,…

— David Hume

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth…

— William James

Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood.

— Anne Applebaum

“Among the so-called neurotics of our day there are a good many who in other ages would not have been neurotic-that is, divided against…

— C.G. Jung

I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets…

— Richard Cohen

“He hovered, as it were, on the fringes of both the scientific and the classical worlds, making, apparently, no deep impression on either. Perhaps…

— Ruth D'Arcy Thompson

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

— Thomas Jefferson

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as…

— Edward Carpenter