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Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Erich Fromm
Art, Effort, Art Of Loving
Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.7, Open Road Media

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

Erich Fromm
Art, Luxury, Soul

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Erich Fromm
Life, Art, Men
Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.26, Open Road Media

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Erich Fromm
Art, Creativity, Practice
Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.11, Open Road Media

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm
Art, Creation, Capacity

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

Erich Fromm
Dream, Art, Form

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Erich Fromm
Art, Reality, Men

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.

Erich Fromm
Art, Fall, Love Is

The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.

Erich Fromm
Art, Mean, Unique
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The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

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

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

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

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.

Erich Fromm
Dream, Art, Two

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