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Thought Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help…
- In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s…
- The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into…
- Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
- 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…
- Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of…
- Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something…
- 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…
- Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself…
- Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought
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