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• Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.

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  Christian, Mean, Special

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• Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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  Life, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

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• Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.

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  Eye, Journey, Long

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• Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

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  Men, Want, Illusion

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

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• In times of change, learners inherit the earth

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  Leadership, Times Have Changed, Earth

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• Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

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  Children, Love You, Love Is

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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  People, Doe, Sanity

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

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  Sides, Authority, Irrational

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

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  Block, Power, Men

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

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• The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

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  Mom, Mother, Children

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• The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

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  Real, Love Is, Objectivity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

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  Men, Challenges, Humanity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “May Man Prevail?: An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy”, Open Road Media

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• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

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  Life, Power, Men

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

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• Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

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  Love, Family, Happiness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

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  Knowing Who You Are, Birth, Born

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

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  Life, Creativity, Mean

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• There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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• The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.

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  People, Giving, Losing

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• Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

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  Love, Romantic, Faith

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• 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. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.

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  Differences, Brotherhood, Identity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

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  Love, Two, Secret

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• Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

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  Responsibility, Elements, Care

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.101, Routledge

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• Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

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  Children, Blessing, Men

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

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• Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

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  Mean, Judging, Understanding

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.243, Open Road Media

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• If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

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  People, Political, Our Love

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