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Which Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
- Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air,…
- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
- There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise…
- Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss…
- 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…
- There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
- Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human…
- To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no…
- The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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