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Become Quotes by Erich Fromm
- The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
- 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…
- I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.
- The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result…
- Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire…
- Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
- Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains…
- In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only…
- A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who…
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do…
- The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must…
- In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is…
- If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means…
- To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no…
- The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with…
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong