5 Quotes & Sayings By G Stanley Hall

G. Stanley Hall was born in 1844 in the village of Leeds, Massachusetts, into a family that traced its roots back to the early Puritans. He received his medical degree from Harvard in 1868. He was one of the first psychiatrists to use hypnosis in his practice and also became an early adopter of Freudian techniques.

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Every theory of love from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. G. Stanley Hall
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. G. Stanley Hall
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. G. Stanley Hall
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. G. Stanley Hall