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Letter "E" » Erich Fromm Quotes
«The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
creation science, premise, premised, puzzled
«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. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
answers, believes, clouds, fulfillment, ideal, look for, outside, solutions, The Clouds
«Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
animal, Animal World, arriving, belongs, contradiction, essentially, faculty, former, grasping, instrument, latter, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, successfully, The Animal, the help
«Men are born equal but they are also born different»
«The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
chief, extraordinary, fiend, fiends, sadist, sadists, The Chief, The Fiend
«Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
a great deal, communications, great deal, manipulated, Manipulating, myths, written language
«Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.»
«There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
activity, enterprise, expectations, fails, hardly, hopes, regularly, started, tremendous
«The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Children,
Mothers,
Relationships
| Keywords:
independent, intense, in a sense, paradoxical, The Mother, tragic
«Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains / except kill it.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
gains, loses, modern, moderns, modern man, quickly
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