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" 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. "

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Dead

Problem

Man

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

" 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. "

" Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' "

" Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. "

" 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. "

" In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. "

" The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. "

" The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. "

" Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. "

" The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. "

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

" Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. "

" 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. "

" Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. "

" Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. "

Erich Fromm

Courage

Let Go

" Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. "

" There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. "

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

" Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. "

" What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. "

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

" Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? "

" Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. "

" If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? "

Erich Fromm

Who

Brainy

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

" 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. "

" One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. "

" Man always dies before he is fully born. "

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Born

Death

" The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. "