Erich Fromm Quotes

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• What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First…
• Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing;…
• It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
• I need you because I love you.
• Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help…
• Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....
• The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
• Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
• Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
• Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.
• Giving is the highest expression of potency.
• Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
• There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness…
• Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
• To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
• One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no…
• If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.
• Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
• The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable…
• Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you…

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