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Us 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…
- If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive…
- 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…
- The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
- 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…
- Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action…
- The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon…
- It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
- 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…
- We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we…
- We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle