A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is. Erik Erikson More Quotes by Erik Erikson More Quotes From Erik Erikson Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it. Erik Erikson small child leader mind The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method. Erik Erikson essentially method historical Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind. Erik Erikson rules better men knowledge Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing. Erik Erikson meaning deep parents child The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live. Erik Erikson live future way thinking We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. Erik Erikson professional cannot leave history We are what we love. Erik Erikson love I am what survives of me. Erik Erikson survives am i-am me He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world. Erik Erikson eyes look ashamed world The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.' Erik Erikson making you history way
