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Letter "E" » Erich Fromm Quotes
«Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
animal, defined, entities, entity, separate, The Animal
«That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature.»
«If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.»
«Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.»
«There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.»
«Women are equal because they are not different any more»
«As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found.»
«Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
refers, refers to, restriction, restrictions
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