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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #1 |
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #2 |
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #3 |
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #4 |
Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #5 |
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate. -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #6 |
A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense. -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #7 |
Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #8 |
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #9 |
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. -- Erich Fromm
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| Erich Fromm -- Quote #10 |
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence. -- Erich Fromm
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