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Erich Fromm Quotes

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“Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.’”
— Erich Fromm, The Graduate's Handbook: Your No-Nonsense Guide for What Comes Next By Clark Gaither
Tagged: Journey, Living Abroad, Living Skills, Architecture Of Happiness, Technology of Wishing
“The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, color each other.”
— Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.’”
— Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom
Tagged: Freedom, Neurosis, Psychologists, Psychology, Anthropology, Society, Life Is A Journey, Soul Searching
“But a map is not enough as a guide for action; we also need a goal that tells us where to go. Animals have no such problems. Their instincts provide them with a map as well as with goals. But lacking instinctive determination and having a brain that permits us to think of many directions in which we can go, we need an object of total devotion, a focal point for all our strivings and the basis for all our effective - not only our proclaimed - values. We need such an object of devotion in order to integrate our energies in one direction, to transcend our isolated existence, with all its doubts and insecurities, and to answer our need for a meaning of life.”
— Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, Psychology
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