Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 15

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• I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is
  death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought.

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  Believe, Men, Law

  Erich Fromm (2013). “On Being Human”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

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  Men, Heaven, Vision

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.135, Routledge

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• Women are equal because they are not different any more.

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  Women, Different, Equal

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Reality, Unimportant Things, Littles

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.

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  Mother, Children, Attitude

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

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  World, Lasts, Desperate

  Erich Fromm (1950). “The Fear of Freedom”

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• The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste.
  But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.

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  Character, Differences, Confusion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Routledge

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• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

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  Evil, Boredom, Painful

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

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• Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

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  Religious, Leader, Egotism

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• In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

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  Dream, Years, Different Faces

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• There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.

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  Country, Creating, Creative

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• Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something.

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  Personality, Want, Way

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• What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

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  Men, People, Personality

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• I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.

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  Clever, Men, Emotional

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• I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.

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  Believe, Personality, Lasts

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• The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.

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  Art, Mean, Unique

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• In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

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  Dream, Noise, Judgment

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• The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

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  Government, Average, Care

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• . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

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  Love Life, Men, Venture

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive.

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  Religious, Love Is, Thinking

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• The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

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  Today, Foreign Policy, Concern

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• The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

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  Country, Sleep, Average

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• Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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  Equality, Men, History

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.

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  Ideas, Vitality, Depth

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• It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Acting

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