The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Quote by Erich Fromm
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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Erich Fromm Quotes
- 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.
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
- Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
- 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.
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Best Quotes
- Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
- Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
- Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
- A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
- It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
- One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
- Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
- There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.