Erich Fromm on Cultures and Challenges

„The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.“

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Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher known for his humanistic approach to psychology and society.

Erich Fromm reflects on the rise and fall of great cultures and the importance of rational, voluntary responses to challenges.


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Erich Fromm (1900–1980) was a prominent social psychologist and psychoanalyst who explored the links between society, freedom, and human nature. His works center on themes of freedom, social psychology, and humanism.

Walter Lippmann quote about civilization and human natureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures." Walter Lippmann
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Quote about the ethical decline of civilized humanity by Viktor SchaubergerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Despite its apparently high technical culture, ‘civilized humanity’ has reached such a low ethical level that it no longer realizes that such physical and moral decay is nothing other than the progressive decline of culture. For this reason, the sacred duty of people who are aware of the gravity of their mistakes is to constantly strive for the final correction of the consequences of mistakes." Viktor Schauberger
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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche about nihilism and the future of European cultureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism […] For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect." Friedrich Nietzsche
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