What is maturity?

Famous quotes containing the word maturity:

    When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    [How] the young . . . can grow from the primitive to the civilized, from emotional anarchy to the disciplined freedom of maturity without losing the joy of spontaneity and the peace of self-honesty is a problem of education that no school and no culture have ever solved.
    Leontine Young (20th century)