"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which……" — Erich Fromm
"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."
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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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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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