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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 13

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The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

Men, Needs, Tragic

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.166, Open Road Media

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.

Boredom, Recognition, Found

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.400, Open Road Media

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

Education, Children, Learning

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

People, Development, Our Society

Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

Imagination, Technique, Social

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Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

Heritage, Proud, Whole

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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.

God, Time, Men

The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Passion, Wish, Drink

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

Dream, Roots, Desire

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To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

Responsibility, School, Knowing

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.34, Open Road Media

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.

Dream, Communication, Missing

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.13, Open Road Media

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

Eight, Gains, Hours

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I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.

Hate, Men, Thinking

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What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

Men, Decision, Manipulation

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In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice of which they are the perpetrators and the victims.

Men, Justice, Victim

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I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.

People, Mind, Want

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Spiritual, Envy, Feelings

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge

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.

Science, Successful, Men

1955 The Sane Society.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

Marriage, Feet, Two

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

Death, Sweet, Ideals

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.270, Open Road Media

Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved.

Mother, Love Always, Mother's Love

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

Thinking, People, Satisfaction

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Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

Men, Creative, Awareness

Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

Men, Unity, Unbearable

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.385, Open Road Media

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

Mean, Feelings, Use

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.117, A&C Black

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