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To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.
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psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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47c84c5
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Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history.
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psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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26ed823
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Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.
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psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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84fbf9e
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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. This is so because man can at least be aware of outer chains but be unaware of inner chains, carrying them with the illusion that he is free. He can try to overthrow the outer chains, but how can he rid himself of chains of whose existence he is unaware? Any
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Erich Fromm |
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As to the contents of the unconscious, no generalization is possible. But one statement can be made; it always represents the whole man, with all his potentialities for darkness and light; it always contains the basis for the different answers which man is capable of giving to the question which existence poses...But man, in any culture, has the potentialities within himself; he is the archaic man, the beast of prey, the cannibal, the idola..
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Erich Fromm |
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The need for speed and newness, which can only be satisfied by consumerism, reflects restlessness, the inner flight from oneself.
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Erich Fromm |
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But any explanation which analyzes one sector to the exclusion of all others is unbalanced, and thus wrong. The socio-economic, spiritual and psychological explanations look at the same phenomena from different aspects, and the very task of a theoretical analysis is to see how these different aspects are interrelated, and how they interact.
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Erich Fromm |
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Nevroz vsegda mozhno poniat' kak popytku - neudachnuiu popytku - razreshit' konflikt mezhdu nepreodolimoi vnutrennei zavisimost'iu i stremleniem k svobode.
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Erich Fromm |
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The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the name of the betrayed ideal
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Erich Fromm |
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nny 'Hb mn jwhr wjwdy .. w`ysh lshkhS lakhr fy jwhr wjwdh
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Erich Fromm |
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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 intellectual capacities; he can thus become one again with man, nature, and himself, without giving up the independence and integrity of his individual self. The other course open to him is to fall back, to give up his freedom, and to try to overcome his aloneness b..
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Erich Fromm |
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Ao relacionar-se com o mundo objetivo, por intermedio de suas faculdades, o mundo exterior torna-se real para o homem, e de fato e so o "amor" que faz o homem verdadeiramente crer na realidade do mundo objetivo a ele extrinseco. Sujeito e objeto nao podem ser separados . "O olho transformou-se em olho humano quando seu objeto se converteu em um objeto humano, social, criado pelo homem e a este destinado... Eles [os sentidos] se relacionam c..
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marxista
zen
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Erich Fromm |
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92fa615
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If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in making man submit to its patterns without resistance. But man, being only relatively malleable, has always reacted with protest against conditions which made the disequilibrium between the social order and his human needs too drastic or unbearable. The attempt to reduce this disequilibrium and th..
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evolution
politics
malleability
receptiveness
society
culture
revolution
resistance
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Erich Fromm |
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73e8cb0
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Naibolee vazhnaia sfera davaniia eto odnako ne sfera material'nykh veshchei, a spetsificheski chelovecheskaia sfera. Chto odin chelovek mozhet dat' drugomu. On daet sebia, samoe dragotsennoe iz togo, chto imeet, on daet svoiu zhizn'. No eto ne obiazatel'no dolzhno oznachat', chto on zhertvuet svoiu zhizn' drugomu cheloveku. On daet emu to, chto est' v nem zhivogo, on daet emu svoiu radost', svoi interes, svoe ponimanie, svoe znanie, svoi iu..
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Erich Fromm |
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V detstve kazhdyi chelovek prokhodit stadiiu slabosti, a istina - eto sil'neishee oruzhie tekh, u kogo net sily. No istina nuzhna cheloveku ne tol'ko dlia togo, chtoby orientirovat'sia vo vneshnem mire; ego sobstvennaia sila v znachitel'noi mere zavisit ot togo, naskol'ko on znaet istinu o samom sebe. Illiuzii o sebe mogut posluzhit' kostyliami dlia tekh, kto ne mozhet khodit' bez nikh, no, voobshche govoria, oni oslabliaiut lichnost'. Naiv..
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Erich Fromm |
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It is the thesis of this book that modern man, freed from the bonds of pre-individualistic society, which simultaneously gave him security and limited him, has not gained freedom in the positive sense of the realization of his individual self; that is, the expression of his intellectual, emotional and sensuous potentialities. Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and pow..
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Erich Fromm |
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modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton.
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Erich Fromm |
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Das Wesentliche an der Existenz des Menschen ist ja, dass er sich uber das Tierreich und seine instiktive Anpassung erhoben hat, dass er die Natur transzendiert hat, wenn er sie auch nie ganz verlasst.
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Erich Fromm |
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We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call "war."
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war
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Erich Fromm |
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326e3fa
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Die Entwicklung der patriarchalischen Gesellschaft geht Hand in Hand mit der Entwicklung des Privateigentums
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Erich Fromm |
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Auf ihrer Suche nach der Einheit hinter der Mannigfaltigkeit kamen die brahmanischen Denker zu dem Schluss, dass das von ihnen wahrgenommene Gegensatzpaar nicht das Wesen der Dinge, sondern das Wesen des wahrnehmenden Geistes widerspiegelt. Das wahrnehmende Denken muss sich selbst transzendieren, um die wahre Wirklichkeit zu erreichen. Der Widerspruch ist eine Kategorie des menschlichen Geistes und nicht an und fur sich ein Element der Wirk..
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Erich Fromm |
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Vernunft ist die Fahigkeit, objektiv zu denken. Die ihr zugrunde liegende Haltung ist die Demut.
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Erich Fromm |
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This axiom of Aristotelian logic has so deeply imbued our habits of thought that it is felt to be "natural" and self-evident, while on the other hand the statement that X is A and not A seems to be nonsensical. (Of course, the statement refers to the subject X at a given time, not to X now and X later, or one aspect of X as against another aspect.)"
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Erich Fromm |
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db52312
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The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle.
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Erich Fromm |
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the newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not.
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Erich Fromm |
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Hb jsd l'nsn lys tHqqan w njzan .. flHywnt tHb SGrh wtu`n~ bh .. wlshkhS l`jz yHb sydh Hyth n Hyth ttwqf `lyh .. n lTfl yHb wldyh Hyth nh yHtj lyhm .. wfy Hb wly'k ldhyn lyfydwn fy tHqyq GrD ykwn lHb qd bd' Hyny'dh fqT ytkshf ..
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Erich Fromm |
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30a1b2a
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'm lmr'h lmuHb@ Hqan , lmr'@ lty tsh`r bs`d@ 'kbr fy l'`T bdlan mn l'khdh , lmnGrs@ jdan fy wjwdh fymknh n tkwn man muHb@ `ndm ykwn lTfl fy `mly@ l'nfSl ..
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Erich Fromm |
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The human desire to experience union with others is rooted in the specific conditions of existence that characterize the human species and is one of the strongest motivators of human behavior.
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Erich Fromm |
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love. If this were the case with any other activity, people would be eager to know the reasons for the failure, and to learn how one could do better--or they would give up the activity. Since the latter is impossible in the case of love, there seems to be only one adequate way to overcome the fail..
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Erich Fromm |
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To be naive and easily deceived is impermissible, today more than ever, when the prevailing untruths may lead to a catastrophe because they blind people to real dangers and real possibilities.
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Erich Fromm |
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It is desirable to avoid trivial and evil company altogether--unless one can assert oneself fully, and thus make the other doubt his own position.
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Erich Fromm |
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Inasmuch as one cannot avoid bad company, one should not be deceived. One should see the insincerity behind the mask of friendliness, the destructiveness behind the mask of eternal complaints about unhappiness. The narcissism behind the charm. One should also not act if he or she were taken in by the others deceptive appearance in order to avoid being forced into a certain dishonesty oneself. One need not speak to them about what one sees, ..
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Erich Fromm |
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Obsessional work alone would drive people just as crazy as would complete laziness
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Erich Fromm |
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Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion.
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Erich Fromm |
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629167e
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Automatons cannot love; they can exchange their "personality packages" and hope for a fair bargain."
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Erich Fromm |
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The capacity to see and--equally so--blindness are not divisible. The critical faculty of the human mind is one: To believe one can be seeing internally but blind as far as the outside world is concerned is like saying that the light of a candle gives light only in one direction and not in all. The light of the candle is reason's capacity for critical, penetrating, uncovering thought.
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Erich Fromm |
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7563aed
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Modern man thinks he loses something -- time -- when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.
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psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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6c54212
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It is essential [...] that discipline should not be practiced 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 behavior which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practicing it.
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psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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8879b6e
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To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.
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psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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A society whose members are helpless need idols.
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marxism
sociology
psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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ffc8ba6
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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
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Erich Fromm |
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9fff773
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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
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Erich Fromm |
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a75584c
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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Erich Fromm |
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49739a5
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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Erich Fromm |