“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”
— Erich Fromm
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“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
— Erich Fromm
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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
— Erich Fromm
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”
— 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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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.”
— Erich Fromm
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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
— Erich Fromm
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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.”
— Erich Fromm
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“We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.”
— 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 is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”
— Erich Fromm
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Category: power
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