Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but... by Erich Fromm

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

Erich Fromm

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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.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most... by Erich Fromm

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

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The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to... by Erich Fromm

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

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I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.

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If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"

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In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if... by Erich Fromm

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

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In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

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Man always dies before he is fully born. by Erich Fromm

Man always dies before he is fully born.

What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

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We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters i... by Erich Fromm

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

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I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act... by Erich Fromm

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life... by Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

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Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

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Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life. by Erich Fromm

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

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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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The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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In times of change, learners inherit the earth by Erich Fromm

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

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