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Means Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.
- Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl…
- Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.
- 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…
- Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is,…
- Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed…
- 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....…
- To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.
- Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
- Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love…
- If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means…
- To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security…
- To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no…
- Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
- Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
More Means Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange