Famous quotes containing the words moment and/or function:
“The soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The mother’s and father’s attitudes toward the child correspond to the child’s own needs.... Mother has the function of making him secure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)