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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Century Dead God Man Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Problem Twentieth Twentieth Century

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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Confronted Embrace Faculty Human Incompatible Just Love Love Is Man Must Object Objects Orientation Reason Restriction Which Whole World

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Man always dies before he is fully born.

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Topics: Always Before Born Dies Fully He Man

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Able Faith Faithful Himself Only Others Person Who

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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Criminal Revolutionary Statesman Successful Unsuccessful

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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Activity Any Enterprise Expectations Fails Hardly Hopes Love Out Regularly Started Tremendous Which

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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Before Born Die Dies Fully Means Most People

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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.

~Erich Fromm

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 23rd, 1900

Died: March 18th, 1980

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