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Wells Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl…
- Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware…
- Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty....…
- Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges…
- 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…
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from…
- . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a…
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