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World 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…
- Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
- The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable…
- The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real…
- I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.
- Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which…
- Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based…
- Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
- FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'
- 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 danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do…
- Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store…
- In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities…
- One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
- We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
- 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…
- 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…
- Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person…
- Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He…
- Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- 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 think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach