The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most
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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.Erich Fromm
Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
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By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts, but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich Fromm
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.
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