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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a4491b | There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon"--said Damodara," | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ceb24b8 | One chair for solitude, two for friendship, and three for society. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| fec3808 | The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| aa813ad | How can he remember well his ignorance--which his growth requires--who has so often to use his knowledge? | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 60ee195 | I was in league, in my little way, with Henry David Thoreau: Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. | Michael Harris | ||
| ce0f04f | that in their sacrifices to humanity they ran no risks, not even to their property; that after all they were not so noble but they treated the thief as he had treated them, and hoped, by a certain outward observance and a few prayers, and by walking in a particular straight though useless path from time to time, to save their souls. This may be to judge my neighbors harshly; for I believe that many of them are not aware that they have such .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 48d7877 | As for clothing, [...] perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility. [...] No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4e1e5e3 | The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. | ocean seashore | Henry David Thoreau | |
| d9dadff | No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. | history law legislation legislators politicians politics | Henry David Thoreau | |
| e0ccf8d | Insotit de Matilde si Jorge, care avea patru ani, m-am dus sa traiesc in muntii din Cordoba, la o ferma fara apa curenta si curent electric, in localitatea Pantanillo. Sub maiestuosul cer instelat, m-am simtit impacat. Ceva asemanator cu ceea ce spune Henry David Thoreau: "M-am dus in padure pentru ca voiam sa traiesc in meditatie, sa infrunt doar faptele esentiale ale vietii, sa vad daca puteam trai si sa invat ceea ce era de invatat; ca n.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 0f663d1 | We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure. The Atlantic is a Lethan stream, in our passage over which we have had an opportunity to forget the Old World and its institutions. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 77aa610 | How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! | life new-era reading | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7b5df7e | By all kinds of traps and sign-boards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you. It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the co.. | gossip intellect meaning mind thinking thoughts trivia | Henry David Thoreau | |
| a9a7efd | Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| dc795f7 | It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 17dc096 | Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9e17fa7 | This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear.. | henry-david-thoreau politics | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 4d728e4 | We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a38f350 | I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 34f3b39 | If this is a lynch mob, you didn't bring enough people," I said." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2fc15a1 | My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 337b68a | Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man. | Erich Fromm | ||
| a9e7dd4 | 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 | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7a004c2 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 49da2e9 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7e6dcc9 | 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, .. | to-have-or-to-be | Erich Fromm | |
| f6cc0c6 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| ad256da | 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. | humanism love relationship | Erich Fromm | |
| 9c38879 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b6de549 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| dd0a231 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 47221bd | 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." | Erich Fromm | ||
| a5a3929 | In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 2c6fc2b | 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.. | marx messianism spirituality | Erich Fromm | |
| d7903fa | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| f0bb189 | 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. | object | Erich Fromm | |
| 03eab8e | The psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm claimed that humankind's most basic fear is the threat of being separated from other humans. He believed that the experience of separateness, first encountered in infancy, is the source of all anxiety in human life. John Bowlby agreed, citing a good deal of experimental evidence and research to support the idea that separation from one's caregivers - usually the mother or father - during .. | Dalai Lama XIV | ||
| 12a9402 | Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ~Erich Fromm | Aliyah Burke | ||
| ca9435c | 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." | Erich Fromm | ||
| e7e5789 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| e504324 | If I am nothing but what I believe I am supposed to be--who am "I"?" | Erich Fromm | ||
| 13f0377 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 33d35b4 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 6fa68e7 | 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. | psychology | Erich Fromm |