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Existence Quotes by Erich Fromm
- In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s…
- All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless…
- Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or…
- 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 criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of…
- Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.
- Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a…
- The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome…
- If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem ofhuman existence, then…
- 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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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
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- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
- I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire