"If the meaning of life has become doubtful,……" — Erich Fromm
"If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others."
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261 Quotes by Erich Fromm
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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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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
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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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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the…
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
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Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of…
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