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Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life
Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm
Age: 79 †
Born: 1900
Born: March 23
Died: 1980
Died: March 18
Philosopher
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
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Frankfurt/Main
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[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.
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The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.
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The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.
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