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Erich Fromm Inspirational Quotes (212)

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The experience of separateness arouses anxiety it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
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Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
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I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
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When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.
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In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.
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I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.
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Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.
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Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
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If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.
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While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.
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Love is an active power in man a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.
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The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.
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If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
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There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
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I need you because I love you.
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To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.
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To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
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Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
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