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Other Quotes by Erich Fromm
- 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…
- 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…
- The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real…
- If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
- Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know…
- A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress…
- 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…
- If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to…
- There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.
- Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
- Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in…
- If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an…
- Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the…
- The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the…
- 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…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour