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| 35f9a44 | La menzogna puo legare a un partito, ma solo la verita in ultima analisi porta alla liberazione dell'uomo. Troppi tuttavia sono colore che hanno paura della liberta e preferiscono l'illusione. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 54f117c | The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; | Erich Fromm | ||
| 3c8c30b | Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement." (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)" | Erich Fromm | ||
| b48e628 | The polarity between the male and female principles exists also within each man and each woman. Just as physiologically man and woman each have hormones of the opposite sex, they are bisexual also in the psychological sense. They carry in themselves the principle of receiving and of penetrating, of matter and of spirit. Man--and woman--finds union within himself only in the union of his female and his male polarity. This polarity is the bas.. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| d1b60b6 | As long as we can think of other alternatives, we are not lost; as long as we can consult together and plan together, we can hope. But, indeed, the shadows are lengthening; the voices of insanity are becoming louder. We are in reach of achieving a state of humanity which corresponds to the vision of our great teachers; yet we are in danger of the destruction of all civilization, or of robotization. A small tribe was told thousands of years .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1daf4d1 | The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Being separate means being cut off, without any capacity to use my human powers. Hence to be separate means to be helpless, unable to grasp the world--things and people--actively; it means that the world can invade me without my ability to react. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 65c37ea | Solo l'amore disinteressato e un sentimento maturo, completo. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b7af3de | Amore fraterno. La forma piu fondamentale d'amore, e l'amore fraterno. Con questo intendo senso di responsabilita, premure, rispetto, comprensione per il prossimo; esso e caratterizzato dall'assenza di esclusivita. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 11286c5 | Se amassi veramente una persona, amerei il mondo, amerei la vita. Se posso dire a un altro "ti amo", devo essere in grado di dire, "amo tutti in te, amo il mondo attraverso te, amo in te anche me stesso"." | Erich Fromm | ||
| ece88a6 | But in many individuals in whom separateness is not relieved in other ways, the search for the sexual orgasm assumes a function which makes it not very different from alcoholism and drug addiction. It becomes a desperate attempt to escape the anxiety engendered by separateness, and it results in an ever-increasing sense of separateness, since the sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. All | Erich Fromm | ||
| aa7747d | One can only understand the power of the fear to be different, the fear to be only a few steps away from the herd, if one understands the depths of the need not to be separated. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4dc372d | 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 conscience--and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b86dc46 | uzhe na rannei stadii vospitaniia rebenka uchat proiavliat' chuvstva, kotorye vovse ne iavliaiutsia ego chuvstvami. Ego uchat liubit' liudei (obiazatel'no vsekh), uchat byt' nekritichno druzheliubnym, ulybat'sia i t. d. Esli v protsesse vospitaniia v detstve chelovek "obloman" ne do kontsa, to vposledstvii sotsial'noe davlenie, kak pravilo, dovershaet delo. Esli vy ne ulybaetes', to pro vas govoriat, chto vy "ne ochen' priiatnyi chelovek", .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 407f4e5 | Significant changes in the psychological atmosphere accompanied the economic development of capitalism. A spirit of restlessness began to pervade life toward the end of the Middle Ages. The concept of time in the modern sense began to develop. Minutes became valuable [...]. Too many holidays began to appear as a misfortune. Time was so valuable that on felt one should never spend it for any purpose which was not useful. Work became increasi.. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 445cd66 | 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." | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| ac70677 | To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 47c84c5 | 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. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 26ed823 | Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| 84fbf9e | 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 | Erich Fromm | ||
| e79a09c | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 68d76da | The need for speed and newness, which can only be satisfied by consumerism, reflects restlessness, the inner flight from oneself. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1354d9a | Disappointment comes when reality falls short of our expectations. But nothing falls short of God's expectations because He knows everything. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 37f900d | 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.. | marxista zen | Erich Fromm | |
| 92fa615 | 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.. | culture evolution malleability politics receptiveness resistance revolution society | Erich Fromm | |
| 73e8cb0 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4dc2b98 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| d73811d | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 72c6053 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 3644416 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 14c9763 | 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." | war | Erich Fromm | |
| 326e3fa | Die Entwicklung der patriarchalischen Gesellschaft geht Hand in Hand mit der Entwicklung des Privateigentums | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4153378 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 48482d8 | Vernunft ist die Fahigkeit, objektiv zu denken. Die ihr zugrunde liegende Haltung ist die Demut. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 2a3c268 | 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.)" | Erich Fromm | ||
| db52312 | The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle. | Erich Fromm | ||
| fb791c2 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4b2df29 | 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 .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 30a1b2a | '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 .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| eb2fe9d | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 2903ab9 | 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.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| ba5061d | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1dd6977 | 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. | Erich Fromm | ||
| ae87b38 | 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, .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1c4652e | Obsessional work alone would drive people just as crazy as would complete laziness | Erich Fromm |