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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f9ac0b6 | It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. | educational-philosophy educational-system | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7bdfe99 | I was walking in a meadow, the source of a small brook, when the sun at last, just before setting, after a cold, gray day, reached a clear stratum in the horizon, and the softest, brightest morning sunlight fell on the dry grass and on the stems of the trees in the opposite horizon and on the leaves of the shrub oaks on the hillside, while our shadows stretched long over the meadow east-ward, as if we were the only motes in its beams. It wa.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 7068543 | It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves...The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men and so with the paths which the mind travels. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d85176e | There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of Nature than our poets have sung. It is only white man's poetry. Homer and Ossian even can never revive in London or Boston. And yet behold how these cities are refreshed by the mere tradition, or the imperfectly transmitted fragance and flavor of these wild fruits. If we could listen but for an instant to the chaunt of the Indian muse, we should understand why he will not exchange his s.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 067a53b | It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1b48393 | He'd been down at the Cass County Library, reading...Win danced a jig he thought that was so funny...about this cat Henry David Thoreau, which he pronounced Toe-Row. He read about his life and read some of his writings and this cat really had his shit together...Toe-Row knew better than anybody that Life is a Big Fat Asshole with everybody trying to Stick It To You when they get half the chance. | charlie-simpson henry-david-thoreau | Joe Eszterhas | |
| e434b2d | Non esiste ne bene ne male se non c'e la liberta di disobbedire. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1c8a676 | But man is not only made by history--history is made by man. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9e5aab5 | The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 3f0f849 | The passion for having must lead to never-ending class war. The pretense of the communists that their system will end class struggle by abolishing classes is fiction, for their system is based on the principle of unlimited consumption as the goal of living. As long as everybody wants to have more, there must be formations of classes, there must be class war, and in global terms, there must be international war. Greed and peace preclude each.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 03ae5c9 | Not only thinking and feeling are determined by man's character structure but also his actions. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 447a0f0 | How can we unshackle ourselves from this irrational impulse to chase worthless options? In 1941 the philosopher Erich Fromm wrote a book called Escape from Freedom. In a modern democracy, he said, people are beset not by a lack of opportunity, but by a dizzying abundance of it. In our modern society this is emphatically so. We are continually reminded that we can do anything and be anything we want to be. The problem is in living up to this.. | Dan Ariely | ||
| a914d38 | Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 844c2b3 | Paradoksal'no, no sposobnost' ostavat'sia naedine s soboi iavliaetsia usloviem sposobnosti liubit' | Erich Fromm | ||
| d800d79 | If we analyze religious or political doctrines with regard to their psychological significance we must differentiate between two problems. We can study the character structure of the individual who creates a new doctrine and try to understand which traits in his personality are responsible for the particular direction of his thinking. [...] The other problem is to study the psychological motives, not of the creator of a doctrine, but of the.. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 9be8fe3 | Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love--yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. This | Erich Fromm | ||
| f722b9d | A third way of attaining union lies in creative activity, be it that of the artist, or of the artisan. In any kind of creative work the creating person unites himself with his material, which represents the world outside. | Erich Fromm | ||
| d62eeec | Primary bonds once severed cannot be mended; once paradise is lost, man cannot return to it. There is only one possible, productive solution for the relationship of individualized man with the world: his active solidarity with all men and his spontaneous activity, love and work, which unite him again with the world, not by primary ties but as a free and independent individual. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 6d2ec82 | Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the "higher power" of nature." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 6a545c9 | The individual is freed from the bondage of economic and political ties. He also gains in positive freedom by the active and independent role which he has to play in the new system. But simultaneously he is freed from those ties which used to be lived in a closed world the center of which was man; the world has become limitless and at the same time threatening. | Erich Fromm | ||
| e77f86c | One concept of activity, the modern one, refers to the use of energy for the achievement of external aims; the other concept of activity refers to the use of man's inherent powers, regardless of whether any external change is brought about. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 449020b | Paradise is lost for good, the individual stands alone and faces the world--a stranger thrown into a limitless and threatening world. The new freedom is bound to create a deep feeling of insecurity, powerlessness, doubt, aloneness, and anxiety. These feelings must be alleviated if the individual is to function successfully. | Erich Fromm | ||
| e24fe4a | The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| b328dcc | To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but "information" alone can be just as much of an obstacle to thinking as the lack of it." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 190ef27 | Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love. | relationships | Erich Fromm | |
| 8bacd03 | Know thyself" is one of the fundamental commands that aim at human strength and happiness." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9cd6976 | When man is born, the human race as well as the individual, he is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open. There is certainty only about the past--and about the future only as far as that it is death. | Erich Fromm | ||
| f597a4d | It was the irrational doubt which springs from the isolation and powerlessness of an individual whose attitude toward the world is one of anxiety and hatred. This irrational doubt can never be cured by rational answers; it can only disappear if the individual becomes and integral part of a meaningful world. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 704f6ae | Buddhist concept of mindfulness means precisely a way of being in which one is fully concentrated on everything one is doing at any given moment, whether it is planting a seed or cleaning a room or eating. Or as a Zen master has said: "When I sleep I sleep, when I eat I eat ..." 10." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 142607a | If You Are Human, You Are Biased 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. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed.. | Howard J. Ross | ||
| 89a8aa1 | When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense of it in terms of the life of his children. But one is bound to fail within oneself and for the children. The former because the problem of existence can be solved by each one only for himself, and not by proxy; the latter because one lacks in the very qualities which one needs to guide the children in their own search for an answer. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 2482192 | One of the most obvious explanations is that the leaders undertake many actions that make it possible for them to pretend they are doing something effective to avoid a catastrophe: endless conferences, resolutions, disarmament talks, all give the impression that the problems are recognized and something is being done to resolve them. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 475790b |
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Erich Fromm | ||
| ebee679 | Come potrebbe un uomo prigioniero nella ragnatela della routine ricordarsi che e un uomo, un individuo ben distinto, uno al quale e concessa un'unica occasione di vivere, con speranze e delusioni, dolori e timori, col desiderio di amare e il terrore della solitudine e del nulla? | Erich Fromm | ||
| 5679b3e | Senza amore, l'umanita non sopravvivrebbe un solo giorno. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b36597c | I knew that we counted little in comparison with the universe, I knew that we were nothing; but to be so immeasurably nothing seems in some way both to overwhelm and at the same time to reassure. Those figures, those dimensions beyond the range of human thought, are utterly overpowering. Is there anything whatsoever to which we can cling? Amid that chaos of illusions into which we are cast headlong, there is one thing that stands out as tru.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| bcb17a1 | The child starts out by being attached to his mother as "the ground of all being." He feels helpless and needs the all-enveloping love of mother. He then turns to father as the new center of his affections, father being a guiding principle for thought and action; in this stage he is motivated by the need to acquire father's praise, and to avoid his displeasure. In the stage of full maturity he has freed himself from the person of mother and.. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 2ec13f0 | Ancak, tam anlamiyla kendisi olmaya dogru bir adim atmaya calisan herkes, korkusuzluk yonunde yeni bir adim atildiginda, cok kesin bir guc ve sevinc duygusunun uyandigini bilir. Yeni bir yasam evresinin baslamis oldugunu duyumsar. Goethe'nin dizelerindeki hakikati hissedebilir: "Evimi bir hicligin uzerine kurdum, bu yuzden butun dunya benimdir." | science | Erich Fromm | |
| 039521e | Davranisi yonlendiren itici gucleri bilirsek, yalnizca simdiki zamanda gerceklestirilen davranisi anlamakla kalmayiz, bir kisinin degistirilmis kosullar altinda nasil davranabilecegi konusunda da akla uygun varsayimlarda bulunabiliriz. | science | Erich Fromm | |
| 7dfe35b | Umut kendi icinde celiskilidir (paradoksaldir). Ne edilgin bekleyistir, ne de gerceklesmesi olanaksiz kosullarin gercekci olmayan bir sekilde zorlanmasidir. Atlama ani geldiginde sicrayacak olan comelik bir kaplana benzer umut. Ne yorgun reformculuk umudun bir anlatimidir ne de sozumona koktenci seruvencilik. Umut etmek demek, henuz dogmamis sey icin her an hazir olmak, ama dogumun, bizim yasam surecimiz icinde gerceklesmemesi halinde umars.. | science | Erich Fromm | |
| a306094 | Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being--and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| a7854f0 | It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of the person. It presupposes the attainment of a predominantly productive orientation; in this orientation the person has overcome dependency, narcissistic omnipotence, the wish to exploit others, or to hoard, and has acquired faith in his own human powers, courage to rely on his powers in the attainment of his goals... | Erich Fromm | ||
| 2a5a232 | The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness. Thus paradoxical logic leads to the conclusion that the love of God is neither the knowledge of God in thought, nor the thought of one's love of God, but the act of experiencing the oneness with God. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 6ef2c7e | Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love. | psychology | Erich Fromm |