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Erich Fromm

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: German

Occupation: Psychologist

Biography: Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Erich Fromm

“Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.”

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“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”

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“We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.”

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“Men are born equal but they are also born different.”

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“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.”

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“People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life — physically and spiritually — and not on the priorities of death.”

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“[Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.”

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“Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.”

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“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.”

- Erich Fromm

Source/Notes: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics (1947)

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“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult.”

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