Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
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.
