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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. - Erich Fromm
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. - Erich Fromm
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. - Erich Fromm
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. - Erich Fromm
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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. - Erich Fromm
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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? - Erich Fromm
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. - Erich Fromm
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Man always dies before he is fully born. - Erich Fromm
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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. - Erich Fromm
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. - Erich Fromm
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. - Erich Fromm
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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. - Erich Fromm
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. - Erich Fromm
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. - Erich Fromm
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. - Erich Fromm
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. - Erich Fromm
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. - Erich Fromm
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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. - Erich Fromm
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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. - Erich Fromm
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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm
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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? - Erich Fromm
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