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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.
Erich FrommAuthority - 2
By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts -- but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced; with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.
Erich FrommSocial alienation - 3
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich FrommCreativity - 4
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich FrommGreed - 5
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Erich FrommPossessions -
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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
Erich FrommLove - 7
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Erich FrommPresent - 8
Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
Erich FrommIntegrity - 9
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Erich FrommReason - 10
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 FrommEquality - 11
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich FrommLove - 12
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich FrommLove - 13
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich FrommExistence - 14
Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
Erich FrommIdentity - 15
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Erich FrommWeakness -
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich FrommBirth - 17
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.
Erich FrommTime and Time Management - 18
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich FrommCreativity - 19
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by patriotism I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Erich FrommPatriotism - 20
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich FrommCharity - 21
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich FrommFaith - 22
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
Erich FrommIntelligence and Intellectuals - 23
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.
Erich FrommThe future - 24
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
Erich FrommInvolvement - 25
The lack of objectivity, as far as foreign nations are concerned, is notorious. From one day to another, another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while ones own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standardevery action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals which they serve.
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