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Erich Fromm points out that many people feel lonely, anxious, and stuck in shallow relationships. He says love is not a quiet place but a constant effort that grows and changes. He also urges a new philosophy that puts life and spirit ahead of death and sameness.

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Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

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When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

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People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by…

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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

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There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

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Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the…

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For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

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Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as…

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People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases…

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What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do…

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I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many…

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“The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when…

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I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about…

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I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is…

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I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even…

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What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper,…

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If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt…

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Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there…

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The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one…

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Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without…

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There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been…

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We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the…

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When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve…

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The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have.…

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People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the…

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People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question…

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In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother…

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The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so…

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If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be…

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Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is…

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We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it…

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Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to…

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Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more…

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It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these…

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their…

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I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind…

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Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought…

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“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world…

Freedom does not mean license.

“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of…

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces…

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into…

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,…

“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously…

By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch…

“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,…

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him…

“Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes, what one…