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| d74cd11 | The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9e91d4e | To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease. | Erich Fromm | ||
| c53e677 | Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking--and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 40536f5 | Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7a9b935 | Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. [...] "Attractive" usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. [...] Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values. In a culture in which the marketing orientation prevai.. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 70e63f5 | Any society, in order to survive, must mold the character of its members in such a way that they want to do what they have to do; their social function must become internalized and transformed into something they feel driven to do, rather than something they are obliged to do. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 8d14741 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1498193 | At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it. | utopia | Erich Fromm | |
| 3e7406f | Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth." | page-5 | Adam Leith Gollner | |
| ced24e0 | One can hardly overestimate people's need to talk about themselves and to be listened to. | Erich Fromm | ||
| e6b5d5a | What matters is the effect, not the process. | Erich Fromm | ||
| ea3fc29 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 5ce419d | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7ae92c1 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1648595 | Man schliesst zu zweit einen Bund gegen die Welt und halt dann diesen egoisme a deux irrtumlich fur Liebe und Vertrautheit. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 001e640 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| ed2d83c | The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b49b9ee | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7ec412d | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b8a00a5 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 234827e | Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance--or in insanity. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 3b75183 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| f6f572e | Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream, | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 944c11f | Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b728016 | resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4507c87 | All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I'll go right on thinking I'm descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you'd feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn't be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn't make me feel I'd done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I'm descended from an ape, I feel I've done remarkably w.. | perspective spiritual | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 6227ca7 | Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower. | creativity holy-spirit | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| dd58177 | People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9d4f58b | For that he was a spirit too delicate To act their earthy and abhorr'd commands, Refusing their grand hests, they did confine him By help of their most potent ministers, And in their most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprisoned, he didst painfully remain. . . . Shakespeare. The Tempest. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| eb8af42 | It's a lot simpler to adapt to low gravity, or no atmosphere, or even sandstorms than it is to hustle inhabitants. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| fa749bc | The winter is cold, is cold. All's spent in keeping warm. Has joy been frozen, too? I blow upon my hands Stiff from the biting wind. My heart beats slow, beats slow. What has become of joy? If joy's gone from my heart Then it is closed to You Who made it, gave it life... Elusive, evasive, peace comes Only when it's not sought. Help me forget the cold That grips the grasping world... | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 62781cd | don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| e3be179 | I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely we are astiff-necked people; why should He not withdraw? But then I remember Jonah accusing God of overlenience, of foolishness, mercy, and compassion. We desperately need the foolishness of God." (233)" | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 94e9f63 | What book(s) changed your life and why? I could probably list books for days, so I'll just list a few favorites: The Giver by Lois Lowry, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate, 1984 by George Orwell, the Bible, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and Juliet by Andras Visky (which is a play, but I think it still counts). | Veronica Roth | ||
| 52ef477 | On Camazotz we are all happy because we are all alike. Differences create problems. You know that, don't you, dear sister? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2274ffa | Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked. "Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs Whatsit said. Mrs Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly, "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." "Jesus!" Charles Wallace said. "Why, of course, Jesus!" "Of course!" Mrs Whatsit said. "Go on, Charles, love. There were others. All your great artists. They've been lights for us to see by." "Leonardo da Vinci?" Calvin sug.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 80d6c7b | For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider the message was lost; for want of the message the battle was lost; for want of the battle the war was lost; for want of the war the kingdom was lost; and all for the want of a horseshoe nail. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 48a037b | So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 6b0ac1a | I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 9a876a6 | Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go." "Not a bad ability." "... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it." | relationships | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| bb5c2ef | Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift. | grief love | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 3197c0e | Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well. | love visualize | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 5c8c6d9 | Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| cc7d3b0 | Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin i.. | Madeleine L'Engle |