In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Quote by Erich Fromm
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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Erich Fromm Quotes
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
- Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
- It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
- If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
- I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
- Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- I've lost my faith in science.
- Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
- Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
- If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.