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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 16

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Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

Religious, Sadness, Men

I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

Thinking, Years, Twenties

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Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

Men, Moral Strength, World

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In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

Writing, Important, Facts

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I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

War, Fall, Worried

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Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

Religious, Men, Today

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[Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no need to seek to discover the distortions, because one must recognize that many dreams are more or less distortions.

Dream, Needs, Messages

I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

Thinking, Track, Blind

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If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

Personality, Physicians, Needs

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.246, Open Road Media

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

Mean, Enthusiasm, Ends

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We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the whole world is at stake. And yet, people know it - people read it in the newspapers, people read that at the first attack, a hundred million Americans might be killed. And yet, they talk about it as if they were talking about something being wrong with the carburetor of their car, perhaps.

War, Talking, People

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Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

Reality, Men, Position

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Art, Men, Doe

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.349, Routledge

If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

Sports, Motivated, Should

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.59, Open Road Media

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

Mean, Brave New World, Thinking

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I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

Mean, Men, Century

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When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

Powerful, Father, Acceptance

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.61, Open Road Media

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

Self, Liberty, Have Faith

Erich Fromm (2017). “Fascism, Power, and Individual Rights: Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.103, Open Road Media

Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

Tyrants, Goal, Enemy

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.121, Open Road Media

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

Dream, Plato, Sleep

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[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.

Dream, Sleep, Symbolism

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

Crazy, Mean, Men

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Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

Faith, Real, Pregnancy

From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions to decipher. And it is really in knowing when one must prefer the one or the other approach, or a combination of the two, that remains one of the important elements of the art of dream interpretation.

Dream, Art, Two

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

Socialism, Ownership, States

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