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Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

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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
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. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.
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The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
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Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
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Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.
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Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.
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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 man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.
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Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.
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People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
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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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The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.
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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
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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
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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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In times of change, learners inherit the earth
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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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Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it.
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Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.
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The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
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