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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.

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
Thought
Law
Transcends
Even
Future
Opposed
Believe
Fact
Unity
Things
Living
Aware
Men
Death
Subject
Life
Facts
Laws
Smallness
Others
Conscious
Derives
Nature
Subjects
Impotence

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