“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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Category: men
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Both dreams and myths are important communications
“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.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: dreams
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Just as modern mass production requires the
“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: equality
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
— Erich Fromm
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Category: love
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Both dreams and myths are important communications
“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.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: great
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The danger of the past was that
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: society
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There can be no real freedom without
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: freedom
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If a person loves only one other
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: love
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In love the paradox occurs that two
“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”
— Erich Fromm
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Category: love
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Man always dies before he is fully
“Man always dies before he is fully born.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: death
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The most beautiful as well as the
“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: nature
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