« All Way Quotes · Erich Fromm's Page
Way Quotes by Erich Fromm
- One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no…
- 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…
- I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the…
- 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…
- Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.
- There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.
- We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
- Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.
- 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…
- 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…
- If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to…
- I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it,…
More Way Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen