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Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm
Age: 79 †
Born: 1900
Born: March 23
Died: 1980
Died: March 18
Philosopher
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Frankfurt/Main
Creativity
Acting
Ability
Action
Respond

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Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.
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I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence he is aware of others as others man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought.
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
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I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.
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I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.
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The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.
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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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To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
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To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.
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It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
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We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
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We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
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Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
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It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.
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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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