"Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of……" — Erich Fromm
"Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments."
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261 Quotes by Erich Fromm
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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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