“Only the person who has faith in himself” – Quote by Erich Fromm
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
Erich Fromm
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Love of Others and Self-Love – Quote by Erich Fromm
“Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.”
Erich Fromm
Money Is Like an Arm or Leg – Henry Ford
“Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.”
Henry Ford
Childhood as a Social Construct – Neil Postman Quote
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.”
Neil Postman
Quote by Neil Postman: Efficiency with Direction
“We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?”
Neil Postman
“We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die” – Umberto Eco
“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die.”
Umberto Eco
Neil Postman on the Magic of Writing
“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people – a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?”
Neil Postman
Selfishness and Love – Quote by Erich Fromm
“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”
Erich Fromm
Quote by Neil Postman: Definition is the Start of an Argument
“A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.”
Neil Postman
Promises and Pie-Crusts – Jonathan Swift
“Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken”
Jonathan Swift