#2,869

Shows which are called technically “for adults” are not for adult minds.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,704

Souls that Christianity does not prune never mature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,567

Maturity consists in walking through well-trodden paths with an unmistakable step.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 412

#2,453

A prolonged childhood—permitted by industrial society’s current prosperity—redounds merely in a growing number of infantilized adults.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,405

The only societies more odious than those which infuriate the rebellious youth are those which he innocently helps to construct.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 388

#2,284

To mature is to discover that every object desired is only the metaphor for the transcendent object of our desire.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 370

#2,246

To speak of a people’s “political maturity” is characteristic of immature intelligences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#1,788

The intellectual irritates the civilized man, just as the adolescent irritates the adult, not because of the audacity of his bright ideas but because of the triviality of his arrogance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 295

#1,784

The twilight of certain lives is possessed not of the pathos of a sunset but of the fullness of midday.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 294

#1,127

Whoever fights against the process of aging merely ages without ever maturing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 198

#931

Let us try, as we grow older, to assume attitudes which our adolescence would have approved and to have ideas which it would not have understood.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 169

#825

The distance between young and old is the same today as it has always been.
Today people speak of the generation “gap” because today’s adult refuses to become old and the youth, with all due disrespect, assures him that he is old.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 151

#744

To mature is to see increase the number of things about which it seems grotesque to give an opinion, for or against.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 134

#654

To mature is to transform an increasing number of commonplaces into authentic spiritual experience.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 121

#455

To mature consists not in renouncing our desires, but in admitting that the world is not obliged to fulfill them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 90

#116

To be young is to fear being thought stupid; to mature is to fear being stupid.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 40

#83

Our maturity must re-conquer its lucidity daily.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 36

#6

Spiritual maturity begins when we stop feeling like we have to take care of the world.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 26