Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Erich Fromm

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The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

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Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with -…

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Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought

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Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to…

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Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual…

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Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your…

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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth…

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I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious…

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“The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience…

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

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

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Freedom does not mean license.

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“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 person. It presupposes the attainment of a predominantly productive orientation; in this orientation the person has overcome dependency, narcissistic omnipotence, the wish to exploit others, or to hoard, and has acquired faith in his own…

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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose…

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

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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, empty… Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not…

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“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously wrong. When Churchill announced at the beginning of the Second World War that what he had to demand from the British was blood, sweat, and tears, he did not deter them, but on the contrary, he…

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

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

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

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

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