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“What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.”

Thinking Knows Values Theory Adults Function Population Publishing Publishers

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.”

Mean Philosophy Reality Theory Buddhism Adults Chaos Mature Chaos Theory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keeping with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.”

Source: The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.”

“Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.”

Thinking Knows Problem Kids Differences Results Trouble Theory Adults Glad Observation Fake Select Ecstatic

Author:Emma Bull

“My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.”

Thinking Kids Girl Theory Normal Training Adults Gender Bias Gender Bias

Author:Geena Davis

“Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.”

Years Lasts Dies Father Parent Theory Adults Died Last Year Father Died

Book:Platform: A Novel

Source: Platform: A Novel