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Results of search for Author: Erich Fromm - Page 1 of 2
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)

Results from Classic Quotes:

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.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980), The Sane Society
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 (1900 - 1980)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
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