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Capacity Quotes by Erich Fromm
- 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…
- Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the…
- Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything,…
- Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this…
- FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'
- Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for…
- The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the…
More Capacity Quotes
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi
- In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the… — Paulo Coelho
- In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
- The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm
- All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey
- Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh