American - Psychologist | March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich Fromm
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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
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Man always dies before he is fully born.
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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
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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.
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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
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Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
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