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Erich Fromm Quotes
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Life Quote
The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.
Relationship Quote
A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
Truth Quote
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
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