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To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.
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Equality today means "sameness," rather than "oneness." It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the same feelings and the same ideas."
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Erich Fromm |
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People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvation--but they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that results be quickly obtained.
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Erich Fromm |
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Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu konnen.
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Erich Fromm |
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Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.
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Erich Fromm |
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I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me.
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Erich Fromm |
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The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality. Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but "information" alone can be just as much of an obstacle to thi..
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While everybody tries to be as close as possible to the rest, everybody remains utterly alone, pervaded by the deep sense of insecurity, anxiety and guilt which always results when human separateness cannot be overcome. Our civilization offers many palliatives which help people to be consciously unaware of this aloneness: first of all the strict routine of bureaucratized, mechanical work, which helps people to remain unaware of their most f..
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lys fy lHb wHdh ykwn l`T m`nh ltlqy, flmdrs yt`lm mn tlmdhth wlmmthl ystthyrh jmhwrh wlmHll lnfsy yushf~ `l~ yd mryDh - bshrT 'l y`ml lwHd mnhm lakhryn `l~ 'nh 'shy, bl `l~ 'n kl wHdin mnhm mrtbT blakhr `l~ nHw 'Syl wmthmr.
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Erich Fromm |
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
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history
robot
slaves
society
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Erich Fromm |
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The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.
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Erich Fromm |
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Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the oppo..
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disillusionment
hope
innocence
lie
society
truth
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Erich Fromm |
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The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness.
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Erich Fromm |
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The outer chains have simply been put inside of man. The desires and thoughts that the suggestion apparatus of society fills him with, chain him more thoroughly than outer chains.
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Erich Fromm |
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Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
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labor
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Erich Fromm |
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lqd 'SbH lklm dmn: n tklm dh 'n mwjwd, 'n tklm dh 'n lst nkr@, 'n 'tklm dh ldy mD, w`ml, w'sr@, wbHdythy `n kl msbq fny 'w'kd `l~ dhty.
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Erich Fromm |
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Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown.
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Erich Fromm |
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klm D`ft dht lmr tt`Zm khshyth mn fqdnh 'thn ltrkyz `l~ mhw lys dhth.
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Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.
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Erich Fromm |
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On whom am I dependent? What are my main fears? Who was I meant to be at birth? What were my goals and how did they change? What were the forks of the road where I took the wrong direction and went the wrong way? What efforts did I make to correct the error and return to the right way? Who am I now, and who would I be if I had always made the right decisions and avoided crucial errors? Whom did I want to be long ago, now, and in the future?..
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Erich Fromm |
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Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severance of the umbilical cord, he would experience the fear of dying. A loving fate protects us from this first panic. But at any new step, at any new stage of our birth, we are afraid again. We are..
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freedom
growth
security
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Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total needs of man, and hence is more conducive to the unfolding of his powers and to his happiness than the other. All cultures provide for a patterned system in which certain solutions are predominant, hence certain strivings and satisfactions.... The dev..
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individual
meaning
neurosis
problem-of-human-existence
religion
society
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Erich Fromm |
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People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
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psychology
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yhm 'n n`rf 'yWa nw`in mn lwHd@ ntHdth `nh `ndm ntHdth `n lHb: hl nshyr l~ lHb kHlWin nDj lmshkl@ lwjwd? 'm 'nn ntklm `n tlk l'shkl Gyr lnDj@ llHb lty ymkn 'n tusm~ wHd@ tkfly@?
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Once the primary bonds which gave security to the individual are severed, once the individual faces the world outside of himself as a completely separate entity, two courses re-open to him since he has to overcome the unbearable state of powerlessness and aloneness. By one course he can progress to "positive freedom"; he can relate himself spontaneously to the world in love and work, in the genuine expression of his emotional, sensuous and ..
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Erich Fromm |
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The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much ..
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Erich Fromm |
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It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. Just as there is a there is a The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to ..
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Erich Fromm |
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The common element in both submission and domination is the symbiotic nature of relatedness. Both persons involved have lost their integrity and freedom; they live on each other and from each other, satisfying their craving for closeness, yet suffering from the lack of inner strength and self-reliance which would require freedom and independence, and furthermore constantly threatened by the conscious or unconscious hostility which is bound ..
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Erich Fromm |
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Indeed the alienated person finds it almost impossible to remain by himself, because he is seized by the panic of experiencing nothingness.
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Erich Fromm |
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The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.
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Erich Fromm |
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flsm@ l'ssy@ llTby`@ lnsny@ hy mqdrth `l~ m`rf@ dhth wm`rf@ m lys mnh, 'w m hw mkhtlf `nh. wm 'n y`y lnsn hdhh lHqyq@ Ht~ n`zl `n lTby`@ wbqy@ lky'nt, whdh ln`zl 'w lnfSl dh nZrn lyh mn nHyth lyjby@ ykwn lHry@, 'm mn nHyth lslby@ fhw lGtrb
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Erich Fromm |
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We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
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society
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n mshkl@ m`rf@ lnsn mmthl@ llmshkl@ ldyny@ lkhS@ bm`rf@ llh. fy llhwt lGrby ltqlydy tbdhl lmHwl@ lm`rf@ llh blfkr, wldl b`brt `n llh. n hdh llhwt yftrD nny stTy` n `rf llh fy fkry. wfy ltSwf ldhy hw lmHSl@ lmtrtb@ `l~ lwHdny@ w ltwHyd fn lmHwl@ lm`rf@ llh `n Tryq lfkr yjry lql` `nh, wtHl mHlh tjrb@ ltHd bllh Hyth l t`wd hnk Drwr@- wlHj@- lm`rf@ shy `n llh. n tjrb@ lwHd@ w ltHd blnsn, w bllh dh tHdthn `l~ nHw dyny lyst tjrb@ l `qlny@. bl bl`..
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lHb lkhwy hw Hb byn thnyn mtswyyn, wlkn Ht~ lw kn mtswyn Hq fnn lsn "mtswyn" dy'm, wdhlk bqdr m nHn bshr fnn jmy` mHtjwn l~ lms`d@. lywm 'n wGd 'nt. lkn hdhh lHj@ l~ lms`d@ l t`ny 'n lwHd `jz wlakhr qwy. l`jz Hl@ mw'qt@, flqdr@ `l~ lwqwf wlmshy `l~ lqdmyn hy lHl@ ldy'm@ wlshy'`@."
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Erich Fromm |
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Hanya ada satu kepastian, yaitu kepastian tentang masa lampau. Sedangkan tentang masa depan, yang ada hanyalah kepastian tentang kematian
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kdhlk ykhtl myzn lthqf@ f~ kl mkn, fmzl `dd l'myyn wljhl kthyran l yHS~. wldyn mn 'dwt ltthqyf ldh`@ wltlfzywn wdwr lsynm wlSHf lywmy@. byd 'n hdhh l'dwt bdlan mn 'n tnshr byn lns rwy'` l'db lqdym wlHdyth, wl`lm lSHyH, wlmwsyq~ lrfy`@, tml' lrw'ws `n Tryq lsm` wlbSr bskhft lm`rf@ wtwf` l'mwr, wtnfth smwmh f~ l`qwl wl'dhhn.
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Erich Fromm |
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We have faith in the potentialities of other, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and of love.
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Erich Fromm |
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We have been compelled to recognize that millions in Germany were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it; that instead of wanting freedom, they sought for ways of escape from it; that other millions were indifferent and did not believe the defense of freedom to be worth fighting and dying for.
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Erich Fromm |
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The common suffering is the alienation from oneself, from one's fellow man, and from nature; the awareness that life runs out of one's hand like sand, and that one will die without having lived; that one lives in the midst of plenty and yet is joyless.
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Erich Fromm |
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mlfrq byn Hry@ lnzw@ wHry@ lrd@? n lnzw@ hy 'y rGb@ tkhrj `fwy, wdwn 'y Sl@ bnywy@ m` lshkhSy@ lkml@ w'hdfh
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Erich Fromm |
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n lm`yr l`m llnzw@hw 'nh tjyb `l~ lsw'l: "wlm l 'f`l dhlk?" wlys `l~ lsw'l: "lmdh 'f`l dhlk?"
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Erich Fromm |
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lf`l ljnsy bdwn Hb l yqym jswran `l~ lTlq fwq lhw@ byn ky'nyn nsnyyn l lbD`@ lHZt
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Erich Fromm |
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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.
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Erich Fromm |
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The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development.
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