#infancy

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual. ↗

— Karl Abraham

#life #psychic #dreams

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#already #back #beset #child #far

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#democracy #ethiopia #infancy #leaders #must

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#early #evolution #future #growing #growing up

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#develop #early #early stages #get #i

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles. ↗

— William Lilly

#fourth #had #i #i can #i do

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#away #fade #guidelines #infancy #intelligence

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#between #childhood #folly #human #human life

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#begins #heaven #infancy #lies #lying

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#consequence #convinced #excellencies #few #few men