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Pattern Quotes by Erich Fromm
- The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable…
- Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self…
- A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants…
More Pattern Quotes
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know… — Germaine Greer
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents… — Ezra Taft Benson
- All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control… — Isaiah Berlin
- Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so… — T.A. Barron