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Erich Fromm - From the Authority category:
Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences, that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, I perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Concentration category:
To be concentrated means to live fully in the present. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Concentration category:
The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Courage category:
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Creativity category:
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Creativity category:
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Culture category:
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Discipline category:
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Dreams category:
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)
Erich Fromm - From the Dreams category:
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. We miss a great deal if we do not understand the language in which they are written... (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Eccentricity category:
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Education category:
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Ego category:
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I? (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Envy category:
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy to be acted out under the guise of virtue. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Expectation category:
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. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Freedom category:
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Generosity category:
In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Hope category:
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Ideas category:
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Insecurity category:
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Life category:
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Love category:
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Love category:
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Masters category:
I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Materials category:
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Money category:
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Power category:
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Problems category:
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Prosperity category:
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Purpose category:
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)
Erich Fromm - From the Questions category:
The capacity to be puzzled is... the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Sadness category:
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Searching category:
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - in himself. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Standards category:
Men are born equal but they are also born different. (Erich Fromm)
Erich Fromm - From the Suffering category:
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. (Erich Fromm)
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