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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 87a4038 | yHdth ltGyr fy lwZyf@ `ndm ytwqf ltmlk `n kwnh wsyl@ llsh`wr bHywy@ wntjy@ '`Zm, wytHwl l~ wsyl@ llsthlk lslby lHsy. `ndm tkwn wZyf@ ltmlk l'ssy@ rD Hjt lsthlk lmtzyd@, fnh ('y ltmlk) sytwqf `n kwnh Hl@ tDyf l~ "lkynwn@", wln ykhtlf `n "lmtlk ltwfyry"." | Erich Fromm | ||
| ba6f711 | We have seen, then, that certain socioeconomic changes, notably the decline of the middle class and the rising power of monopolistic capital, had a deep psychological effect... Nazism resurrected the lower middle class psychologically while participating in the destruction of its old socioeconomic position. It mobilized its emotional energies to become an important force in the struggle for the economic and political aims of Germain imperia.. | nazi middle-class imperialism | Erich Fromm | |
| 01df01e | They were more free, but they were more alone. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| aaada27 | There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they are the roster of great men as far as the record of human history is concerned- and visualized something which can be called universally human and which is not identical with what a particular society assumes human nature to be. There were always men who were bold and imaginative enough to se.. | unique-people universality individualist individualism society | Erich Fromm | |
| a79ce06 | l`l mn lTryf f~ hdh lSdd 'n ndhkr hn 'n 'Hd lmw'rkhyn lthq@ yw'kd ln 'nh fym byn `m 1500 w 1860 b`d lmyld wq`t ldwl m ynyf `n thmny@ alf m`hd@ llSlH, thdf kl mnh l~ syd@ lslm ldy'm byn lsh`wb, wlm tdm wHd@ mnh 'kthr mn `myn ! | Erich Fromm | ||
| 10e818e | nn l nnkr 'n lnsny@ wsT hdh lDjyj wl`jyj l t`dm nfran mn l`ql bndwn b`qd m`hdt lSlH wnshr 'lwy@ lslm f~ rbw` l`lm b'srh. Gyr 'n qSr~ m ybdhlh hw'l l`ql mn jhd l y`dw 'n ykwn klmt mktwb@ wHbran `l~ wrq. l`l mn lTryf f~ hdh lSdd 'n ndhkr hn 'n 'Hd lmw'rkhyn lthq@ yw'kd ln 'nh fym byn `m 1500 w 1860 b`d lmyld wq`t ldwl m ynyf `n thmny@ alf m`hd@ llSlH, thdf kl mnh l~ syd@ lslm ldy'm byn lsh`wb, wlm tdm wHd@ mnh 'kthr mn `myn ! | Erich Fromm | ||
| 0127538 | Si percibo en otra persona nada mas que lo superficial, percibo principalmente las diferencias, lo que nos separa. Si penetro hasta el nucleo, percibo nuestra identidad, el hecho de nuestra hermandad. | humanity life love peace | Erich Fromm | |
| 32c2106 | The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man .. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 4108da7 | Yet all this bespeaks a dim realization of the truth--the truth that modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9f68638 | If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57 | Erich Fromm | ||
| a1c71cb | Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. This, however, holds true only for productive work, for work in which I plan, produce, see the result of my work. In the modern work process of a clerk, the worker on the endl.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 24e162d | Since the values of the market were the highest criteria, persons also became valued as commodities which could be bought and sold. A person's worth is then his salable market value, whether it is skill or 'personality' that is up for sale. [...] The market value, then, becomes the individual's valuation of himself, so that self-confidence and 'self-feeling' (ones experience of identity with one's self) are largely reflections of what other.. | self-wort society culture capitalism self-esteem | Rollo May | |
| 09f3ecc | Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future. This awareness of himself as a separate entity, the awareness of his own short life span, of the fact that without his will he is born and against his will he dies, that he will die before those whom he loves, or they before him, the awareness of his aloneness and separateness, of h.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 0c4659d | Meister Eckhart on this topic: "If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is a great and righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally."[14]" | Erich Fromm | ||
| a9c3fc2 | Mental health cannot be defined in terms of the "adjustment" of the individual to his society, but, on the other hand, that it must be defined in terms of the society to the needs of man, of its role in furthering or hindering the development of mental health. Whether or not the individual is healthy, is primarily not an individual matter, but depends on the structure of his society." | Erich Fromm | ||
| e9e717a | The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man. | socialism work political-philosophy | Erich Fromm | |
| 6d8f2f4 | God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow," | Erich Fromm | ||
| 3ed8974 | For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice. | obedience | Erich Fromm | |
| bf50ca6 | Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions. But know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself, to his reason and his conscious, and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 81282cb | Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. | Erich Fromm | ||
| cb6ce03 | It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 5942749 | And he loved my mother. I saw him on the last days of his life lift that oil-scented right hand and enter its fingers into her ordered hair and rustle it free of its pins as if he had been offered velvet or the fur of a rare animal. Forever I hold that gesture. For me it was perhaps the last remembered pleasure belonging to him. It is the unspoiled core of whatever I know of love and family (and I have not been successful at the craft of it.. | Michael Ondaatje | ||
| 6b5656b | C]onvenience is one of the two dirty words of American cooking, reflecting the part of our national character that is easily bored; the other is 'gourmet.' Convenience foods demonstrate our supposed disdain for the routine and the mundane: 'I don't have time to cook.' The gourmet phase, which peaked in the eighties, when food was seen as art, showed our ability to obsess about aspects of daily life that most other cultures take for granted... | Mark Bittman | ||
| 247877e | In cooking--as in business and war--hope for the best but plan for the worst. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fdb52a1 | My goal is to learn things once and use them forever. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5fc16f0 | 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 578dac7 | Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. . . . Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run--in the long-ru.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0e55e94 | a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 07f57a8 | By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. --ROBERT FROST, American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0153582 | Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. --DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer Prize-winning American humorist | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 7880c59 | It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take. The most fulfilled and effective people I know--world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more--look at their life's journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eaaadff | The New Rich ( NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ae93700 | At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthle.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| bca3a46 | Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5411fe9 | Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --ALBERT EINSTEIN | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| dd2d0c7 | we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it." We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired th.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 152abc6 | Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. --DAVE BARRY | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9839684 | take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 92e8cfa | Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5c1ecec | Less Is Not Laziness Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 94328a9 | Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 845492c | Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a42903b | Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4357a7e | When you're thinking of how to make your business bigger, it's tempting to try to think all the big thoughts, the world-changing, massive-action plans. But please know that it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you. | Timothy Ferriss |