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Human Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help…
- Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
- While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given…
- 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…
- Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to…
- 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…
- 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…
- I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the…
- Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience
- 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…
- All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
- The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense…
- Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
- 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…
- Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling…
- Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from…
- Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human…
- 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…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle