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To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge. Knowledge would be empty if it were not motivated by concern. There are many layers of knowledge; the knowledge which is an aspect of love is one which does not stay at the periphery, but penetrates to the core. It is possible only when I can transcend the concern for myself and see the other person in his ow..
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Erich Fromm |
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At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.
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utopia
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Erich Fromm |
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ced24e0
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One can hardly overestimate people's need to talk about themselves and to be listened to.
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Erich Fromm |
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What matters is the effect, not the process.
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Erich Fromm |
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Der Mensch] wurde dem Wahnsinn verfallen, wenn er sich nicht aus diesem Gefangnis befreien konnte - wenn er nicht in irgendeiner Form seine Hande nach anderen Menschen ausstrecken und sich mit der Welt ausserhalb seiner selbst vereinigen konnte.
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Erich Fromm |
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One discovers answers to problems only when one feels that they are burning and that it is a a matter of life and death to solve them. Is nothing is of burning interest, one's reason and one's critical faculty operate on a low level of activity; it appears then that one lacks the faculty to observe.
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Erich Fromm |
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Die heutige Gesellschaft predigt das Ideal einer nicht-individualisierten Gleichheit, weil sie menschliche Atome braucht, die sich untereinander vollig gleichen, damit sie im Massenbetrieb glatt und reibungslos funktionieren, damit alle den gleichen Anweisungen folgen und jeder trotzdem uberzeugt ist, das zu tun, was er will. Genauso wie die moderne Massenproduktion die Standardisierung der Erzeugnisse verlangt, so verlangt auch der gesells..
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Erich Fromm |
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Man schliesst zu zweit einen Bund gegen die Welt und halt dann diesen egoisme a deux irrtumlich fur Liebe und Vertrautheit.
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Erich Fromm |
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The unity achieved in productive work is not interpersonal; the unity achieved in orgiastic fusion is transitory; the unity achieved by conformity is only pseudo-unity. Hence, they are only partial answers to the problem of existence. The full answer lies in the achievement of interpersonal union, of fusion with another person, in love.
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Erich Fromm |
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The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness.
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Erich Fromm |
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La peggiore di tutte le passioni umane, l'impulso a servirsi di un proprio simile per fini egoistici, in nome della propria superiorita, ben poco si differenzia da una forma raffinata di cannibalismo.
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Erich Fromm |
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Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves, and there is nothing that gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, to feel, and to say what is ours.
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Erich Fromm |
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Many psychiatrists, including psychoanalysts, have painted the picture of a "normal" personality which is never too sad, too angry, or too excited. They use words like "infantile" or "neurotic" to denounce traits of types of personalities that do not conform with the conventional pattern of a "normal" individual. This kind of influence is in a way more dangerous than the older and franker forms of name-calling. Then the individual knew at l..
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Erich Fromm |
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Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance--or in insanity.
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Erich Fromm |
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People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of losing themselves in the act of concentration on the non-self.
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Erich Fromm |
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My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.
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Erich Fromm |
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Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man.
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Erich Fromm |
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If a person does not emerge from incestuous attachment to mother, clan, nation, if he retains the childish dependence on a punishing and rewarding father, or any other authority, he cannot develop a more mature love for God; then his religion is that of the earlier phase of religion, in which God was experienced as an all-protective mother or a punishing rewarding father. In
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Erich Fromm |
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The more man gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an 'individual,' he has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world that destroys his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.
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Erich Fromm |
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Human existence begins when the lack of fixation of action by instincts exceeds a certain point; when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by hereditarily given mechanisms. In other words, human existence and freedom are from the beginning inseparable. Freedom is here used not in its positive sense of "freedom to" but in its negative sense of "freedom from", namely freedom from instin..
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Erich Fromm |
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Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as "love." "Love" is abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, ..
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to-have-or-to-be
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As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power.
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Erich Fromm |
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Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one 'object' of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
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humanism
relationship
love
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In other words, ideas can become powerful forces, but only to the extent to which they are answers to specific human needs prominent in a given social character.
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Erich Fromm |
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Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a mass aggregation, smoothly, without friction; all obeying the same commands, yet everybody being convinced that he is following his own desires. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardizati..
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Erich Fromm |
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The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice.
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Erich Fromm |
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All this kind of relationship amounts to is the well-oiled relationship between two persons who remain strangers all their lives, who never arrive at a "central relationship," but who treat each other with courtesy and who attempt to make each other feel better."
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Erich Fromm |
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In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall.
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Erich Fromm |
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This popular picture of Marx's 'materialism' - his anti-spiritual tendency, his wish for uniformity and subordination - is utterly false. Marx's aim was that of the spiritual emancipation of man, of his liberation from the chains of economic determination, of restituting him in his human wholeness, of enabling him to find unity and harmony with his fellow man and with nature. Marx's philosophy was, in secular, nontheistic language, a new an..
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spirituality
messianism
marx
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lys hnk sw~ shkl wHd mn lqtrb ymn` tTwr lfrd, w ysbb tlk lHtkkt 'w lnqS fy lTq@ - nh lHb lrshd. w'`ny bdhlk l`q@ lHmym@ ltm@ byn shkhSyn, yHtfZ kl shkhS fyh bstqlh ltm wybq~ mnfSlan l~ Hd m. wfy l'Sl, n lHb lys Sr`yan, whw lys frS@ lfqdn lTq@, l'nh ysmH brbT shb` Hjtyn nsnytyn `myqtyn, lqtrb mn ky'n Glin, wlstqll.
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The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an , not the problem of a . People think that to is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.
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Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this "central experience" is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love."
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Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.
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Erich Fromm |
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If I am nothing but what I believe I am supposed to be--who am "I"?"
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Erich Fromm |
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If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune.
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Erich Fromm |
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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance, albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true.
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Erich Fromm |
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To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid.
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psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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Sin amor, la humanidad no podria existir un dia mas.
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Erich Fromm |
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no man must be the means for the ends of another man.
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Erich Fromm |
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Aliveness always makes a beautiful.
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Erich Fromm |
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mdh y`ny 'n yqwm shkhS m btkyyf Hyth bshkl kml btjh ltmlk? ky'n mn ykwn dhlk ldhy yqwm btwjyh Hyth l~ ltml, fhw yHsm ms'l@ mhyth wmhy@ wjwdh wm`n~ Hyth w'slwbh fy lHy@ bn `l~ mymlkh, wmldhy bmknh 'n ymlkh, w 'n ymlk lmzyd mnh
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Erich Fromm |
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Ma la donna non e un uomo evirato, e la sua sessualita e tipicamente femminile e non "di natura maschile"."
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Erich Fromm |
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grnbhtryn srmyh nsn w mHkhmtryn pyh qdrt w chyzy jz shkhSyt w nyst
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Erich Fromm |
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Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives which make for the differences in men's characters, like love and hatred, the lust for power and the yearning for submission, the enjoyment of sensuous pleasure and the fear of it, are all products of the social process. The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed and biologically given human natur..
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social-psychology
society
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