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Experience Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
- 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…
- 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 experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in…
- The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of…
- 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…
- Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based…
- 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…
- The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into…
- The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
- Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty....…
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened…
- To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
- I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it,…
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- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations… — Martha Beck