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Thinking Quotes by Erich Fromm
- There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness…
- Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
- People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
- To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen…
- 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…
- Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and…
- Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling…
- If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by…
- 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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