Accompany Quote by Erich Fromm

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their…

— Zhuangzi

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

— Anonymous

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

— Eugene Ionesco

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more…

— Anonymous

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the…

— Abraham J. Twerski

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman

Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await…

— Pope Francis

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

— Bertrand Russell

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life…

— Samuel Johnson