Erich Fromm: Frasi in inglese

Erich Fromm era psicoanalista e sociologo tedesco. Frasi in inglese.
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“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

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Erich Fromm libro L'arte di amare

Origine: The Art of Loving

“if i am what i have, and i lose what i have, who then am i?”

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Variante: If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I?

“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.”

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Erich Fromm libro Psychoanalysis and Religion

Origine: Psychoanalysis and Religion

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”

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Erich Fromm The Sane Society

Origine: The Sane Society

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”

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“People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?”

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Origine: Love, Sexuality and Matriarchy: About Gender

“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”

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Origine: To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

“Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life”

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Origine: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“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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“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.”

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Origine: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4 "Problems of Humanistic Ethics"

“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”

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Erich Fromm libro L'arte di amare

Origine: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

“To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.”

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Erich Fromm libro L'arte di amare

Origine: The Art of Loving

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”

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Origine: Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.”

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Erich Fromm libro L'arte di amare

Origine: The Art of Loving

“The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self
to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer,
and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden:
the self.”

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Erich Fromm libro Escape from Freedom

Origine: Escape from Freedom

“If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.”

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Origine: Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics