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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

~Erich Fromm

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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Both Busy Communications Deal Dreams Great Great Deal Hours Important Know Language Manipulating Miss Myths Ourselves Outside Outside World Tell Those Understand Which World Written

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Art Capacity Creation Premise Puzzled Science

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Between Considering Exchange Expect Favorable Get Love Love Is Market Most Nothing Often People Personality Two Two People Value Who

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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

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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

Topics: Attachment Egotism His Indifferent Love Love Is Loves Only Other Others Person Symbiotic

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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

~Erich Fromm

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Connection Consume How Know Live Manipulate Only Our Them Things World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 23rd, 1900

Died: March 18th, 1980

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