"The task we must set for ourselves is……" — Erich Fromm
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
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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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