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Aim Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self…
- The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
- The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.
- The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the…
- Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
- ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our…
- Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can…
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- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
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- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular… — A. C. Benson