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Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm

“As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.”

- Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm

“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 Fromm

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Erich Fromm

“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

Source/Notes: As quoted in The New York Times (5 January 1964)
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Erich Fromm

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

- Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm

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

- Erich Fromm

Source/Notes: Escape from Freedom (1941)
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Erich Fromm

“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

Source/Notes: The Art of Loving (1956)
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Erich Fromm

“If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?”

- Erich Fromm

Source/Notes: Variant: "If I am what I have and if what I am is lost, who then am I?" - To Have or to Be? (1976), Chapter 6 - Further Aspects of Having and Being
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Erich Fromm

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

- Erich Fromm

Source/Notes: The Art of Loving (2013 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781480402003
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Erich Fromm

“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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Erich Fromm

“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 Fromm

Source/Notes: Ch. 3 The Human Situation Sect. E The Need for a Frame of Orientation and Devotion — Reason vs. Irrationality - The Sane Society (1955)
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Erich Fromm

“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

Source/Notes: The Art of Loving (1956)
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Erich Fromm

“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 Fromm

Source/Notes: Ch. 5 Man in Capitalistic Society Sect. C.2.b Alienation - The Sane Society (1955)
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Erich Fromm

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

- Erich Fromm

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“Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.”

- Erich Fromm

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