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Erich Fromm

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.


— Erich Fromm


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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.


— Erich Fromm


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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.


— Erich Fromm


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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.


— Erich Fromm


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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.


— Erich Fromm


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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.


— Erich Fromm


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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.


— Erich Fromm


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


— Erich Fromm


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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.


— Erich Fromm


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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.


— Erich Fromm


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About Erich Fromm






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). He observed that embracing our freedom of will was healthy whereas escaping freedom through the use of escape mechanisms was the root of psychological conflicts. Drawing from his knowledge of the Torah Fromm pointed to the story of Jonah who did not wish to save the residents of Nineveh from the consequences of their sin as demonstrative of his belief that the qualities of care and responsibility are generally absent from most human relationships.

Erich SeligmannFromm (March 23 1900 – March 18 1980) was a German social psychologist psychoanalyst sociologist humanistic philosopher and democratic socialist.

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