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Things Quotes by Erich Fromm
- 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…
- Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store…
- I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department…
- The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters…
- We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
- 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…
- ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our…
- We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much…
- Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with…
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