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Feels Quotes by Erich Fromm
- There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness…
- 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…
- Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
- 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…
- There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.
- The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He…
- 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…
- If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to…
- I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside…
- Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
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