"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking,……" — Erich Fromm
"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
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261 Quotes by Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm has 261 quotes on this site.
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What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what…
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
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It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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I need you because I love you.
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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate…
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Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....
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The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one…
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
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Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance…
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Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.
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Giving is the highest expression of potency.
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate…
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More Anachronistic Quotes
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One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the…
— Daniel C. Peterson
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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly…
— Lev Grossman
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The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach.…
— Dalai Lama
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We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.
— Mark Zandi
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I…
— Garth Stein
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Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to…
— Milan Kundera
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African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.
— Julius Nyerere
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while…
— Juan Williams
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