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[Quote No.15576] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Education is helping the child [and adult] realize his [and her] potentialities. [...to become all that they can become, for the good of all.]" - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980) American psychoanalyst and social philosopher
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[Quote No.41911] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.71797] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Life-skills, knowledge, attitudes and wisdom; learning; individual freedom and personal responsibility; existentialism; evolve:-] Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision making which replace the principles of instinct. He has to have a frame of orientation that permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger that is specifically human: that of becoming insane [irrational, depressed, unhappy, etc]. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind. The human being, born under the conditions described here, would indeed go mad if he did not find a frame of reference which permitted him to feel at home in the world in some form and to escape the experience of utter helplessness, disorientation, and uprootedness. There are many ways in which man can find a solution to the task of staying alive and of remaining sane. Some are better than others and some are worse. By â€˜betterâ€™ is meant a way conducive to greater strength, clarity, joy, independence; and by â€˜worseâ€™ the very opposite. But more important than finding the better solution is finding some solution that is viable." - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980), humanistic philosopher and psychologist. Quote from his 1968 work, â€˜The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technologyâ€™.
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[Quote No.6714] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfilment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself. " - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.19083] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by [his choice of purpose and] the unfolding of his powers." - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980) American psychoanalyst and social philosopher
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[Quote No.47046] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"Man's main task in life is to [imagine and] give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort in his own personality." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.58808] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"[Freedom, individuality, authenticity and being yourself, so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property:] 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 Fromm
(1900 - 1980) Psychoanalyst
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[Quote No.61712] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"[Societal and individual freedom:] ... a sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man ... It is our first task then, to ascertain what is the nature of man, and what are the needs which stem from this nature. [Refer Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Then setting desires and goals from this understanding of our species specific needs and then individually expressed desires gives each human the best chance to contribute productively to society and to be satisfied, happy and grateful individually.]" - Erich Fromm
(1900–1980), German humanistic philosopher and psychologist. Quote from his 1955 book, 'The Sane Society'.
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[Quote No.66761] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"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 Fromm
(1900 - 1980) Psychoanalyst
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[Quote No.9342] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. " - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.40455] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity." - Erich Fromm
psychologist
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[Quote No.44960] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. " - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.46782] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.52315] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"[Individualism:] 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 Fromm
(1900 - 1980) Psychoanalyst
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[Quote No.58809] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"[Freedom, individuality, authenticity and being yourself, so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property:] 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 Fromm
(1900 - 1980) Psychoanalyst
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[Quote No.66762] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"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 [best] personality! " - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980) Psychoanalyst
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[Quote No.71798] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"[Life-skills, knowledge, attitudes and wisdom; learning; individual freedom and personal responsibility; existentialism; evolve:-] Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision making which replace the principles of instinct. He has to have a frame of orientation that permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger that is specifically human: that of becoming insane [irrational, depressed, unhappy, etc]. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind. The human being, born under the conditions described here, would indeed go mad if he did not find a frame of reference which permitted him to feel at home in the world in some form and to escape the experience of utter helplessness, disorientation, and uprootedness. There are many ways in which man can find a solution to the task of staying alive and of remaining sane. Some are better than others and some are worse. By â€˜betterâ€™ is meant a way conducive to greater strength, clarity, joy, independence; and by â€˜worseâ€™ the very opposite. But more important than finding the better solution is finding some solution that is viable!" - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980), humanistic philosopher and psychologist. Quote from his 1968 work, â€˜The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technologyâ€™.
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[Quote No.68500] Need Area: Mind > General
"[Life-skills:] Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision making which replace the principles of instinct. He has to have a frame of orientation that permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger that is specifically human: that of becoming insane. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind. The human being, born under the conditions described here, would indeed go mad if he did not find a frame of reference which permitted him to feel at home in the world in some form and to escape the experience of utter helplessness, disorientation, and uprootedness. There are many ways in which man can find a solution to the task of staying alive and of remaining sane. Some are better than others and some are worse. By 'better' is meant a way conducive to greater strength, clarity, joy, independence; and by 'worse' the very opposite. But more important than finding the better solution is finding some solution that is viable." - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980), humanistic philosopher and psychologist. Quote from his book, 'The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology', published 1968.
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[Quote No.71796] Need Area: Mind > General
"[Life-skills, knowledge, attitudes and wisdom; learning; individual freedom and personal responsibility; existentialism; evolve:] Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision making which replace the principles of instinct. He has to have a frame of orientation that permits him to organize a consistent picture of the world as a condition for consistent actions. He has to fight not only against the dangers of dying, starving, and being hurt, but also against another danger that is specifically human: that of becoming insane [irrational, depressed, unhappy, etc]. In other words, he has to protect himself not only against the danger of losing his life but also against the danger of losing his mind. The human being, born under the conditions described here, would indeed go mad if he did not find a frame of reference which permitted him to feel at home in the world in some form and to escape the experience of utter helplessness, disorientation, and uprootedness. There are many ways in which man can find a solution to the task of staying alive and of remaining sane. Some are better than others and some are worse. By â€˜betterâ€™ is meant a way conducive to greater strength, clarity, joy, independence; and by â€˜worseâ€™ the very opposite. But more important than finding the better solution is finding some solution that is viable." - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980), humanistic philosopher and psychologist. Quote from his 1968 work, â€˜The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technologyâ€™.
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[Quote No.42315] Need Area: Body > General
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.32051] Need Area: Money > General
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.39941] Need Area: Work > Service
"If you do not smile you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.15023] Need Area: Property > Conservation
"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980) American psychoanalyst and social philosopher
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[Quote No.71852] Need Area: Friends > Partners
"Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort." - Erich Fromm
The opening line from his 1956 book, â€˜The Art of Lovingâ€™.
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[Quote No.2509] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The mother-child [parent-child] relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's [parent's] side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother [parent], and to become fully independent. " - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.6813] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Education is helping the child realize his potentialities." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.40017] Need Area: Friends > Children
"In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation [-their getting of wisdom and independence]." - Erich Fromm
psychologist. Quote from 'The Art of Loving', ch. 2 (1956).
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[Quote No.763] Need Area: Friends > Love
"When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. " - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.5536] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you. " - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.5910] Need Area: Friends > Love
"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. [hope springs eternal and quickly]" - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.58496] Need Area: Friends > Love
"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.71853] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort!" - Erich Fromm
The opening line from his 1956 book, â€˜The Art of Lovingâ€™.
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[Quote No.41912] Need Area: Friends > General
"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail!" - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.54706] Need Area: Friends > General
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal." - Erich Fromm
(1900-1980), psychoanalyst and author.
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[Quote No.61713] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Societal and individual freedom:-] ... a sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man ... It is our first task then, to ascertain what is the nature of man, and what are the needs which stem from this nature. [Refer Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Then setting desires and goals from this understanding of our species specific needs and then individually expressed desires gives each human the best chance to contribute productively to society and to be satisfied, happy and grateful individually.]" - Erich Fromm
(1900–1980), German humanistic philosopher and psychologist. Quote from his 1955 book, 'The Sane Society'.
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[Quote No.21917] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. [To be happy know what is enough for you.]" - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.39019] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction [or 'enough' or fully appreciating and being grateful for what has already been achieved and for the journey itself]." - Erich Fromm

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[Quote No.58810] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"[Freedom, individuality, authenticity and being yourself, so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property:] 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 [best] personality." - Erich Fromm
(1900 - 1980) Psychoanalyst
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[Quote No.3121] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." - Erich Fromm

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