Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm Quotations
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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.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.