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Quotes by Erich Fromm
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- 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 mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
- The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
- The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
- 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.
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- 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.
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