What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.” — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is essential [...] that discipline should not be practiced like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense… — Erich fromm Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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