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Letter "E" » Erich Fromm Quotes
«The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced / by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
appendix, atomic, atomic energy, bomb, fission, fission bomb, hydrogen, hydrogen bomb, manufacture, pace, physics, production, products, pushed, technique, theoretical, theoretical physics, transcending
«The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.»
«As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
ascend, ladder, mask, The Social, thicker, viciousness, wears
«There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.»
«The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
criminal, revolutionary, statesman, unsuccessful
«Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.»
«We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.»
«Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
commodities, production, social process, The Social
«Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.»
«In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
God is dead, nineteenth, nineteenth century, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
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