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Man 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…
- Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
- Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
- One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no…
- 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.
- Man is the only animal that can be bored.
- Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with…
- Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
- Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire…
- Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
- 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 can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.
- 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…
- Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl…
- 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…
- Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and…
- That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In…
- 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…
- The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to…
- Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.
- Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
- The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
- Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
- But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the…
- Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle