Tag: Erich Fromm

Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.

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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.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Erich Fromm

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Erich Fromm

Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

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Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

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That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

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The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom.

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The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

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