Erich Fromm on Love and Egotism
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
Erich Fromm
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Umberto Eco on Faith, Humility, and Salvation
“The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God’s will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.”
Umberto Eco
Erich Fromm on Exploitation, Manipulation and Destruction
“Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.”
Erich Fromm
Umberto Eco: True Enemies and Weaker Opponents
“When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.”
Umberto Eco
John Trudell on Commitment and Change
“I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country.”
John Trudell
Having or Freedom – Quote by Erich Fromm
“The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.”
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm: Life as a Process of Self-Development
“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.”
Erich Fromm
“One Cannot Be Deeply Responsive to the World” – Erich Fromm
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
Erich Fromm
Brisk Talkers and Slow Thinkers – Jonathan Swift
“Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.”
Jonathan Swift
The brain that doesn’t feed itself, eats itself – Quote by Gore Vidal
“The brain that doesn’t feed itself, eats itself.”
Gore Vidal