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I believe that my newly completed symphony will show the world that atonality and ugly dissonance at...
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD When there are sequences when the eye, and not the ear, is the primary object, then the composer has...
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD As for my working habits, I like the idea of perfection. If a thing is not right it is done over and...
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Producers have realized that public taste in music has risen, and we are now conducting a test which...
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without...
ERICH FROMM

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical q...
ERICH FROMM

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
ERICH FROMM

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep...
ERICH FROMM I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remembe...
ERICH BERGEN

Love means never having to say you're sorry.
ERICH SEGAL

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can ...
ERICH FROMM

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the sep...
ERICH FROMM

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
ERICH FROMM

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
ERICH FROMM

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
ERICH FROMM

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderf...
ERICH GUTKIND

The lack of objectivity, as far as foreign nations are concerned, is notorious. From one day to anot...
ERICH FROMM

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of...
ERICH FROMM

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

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.
ERICH SEGAL

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

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sa...
ERICH FROMM

What the hell makes you smart?" I asked.
"I wouldn't go for coffee with you."
"Listen - I ...
ERICH SEGAL

The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience...
ERICH FROMM

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.
ERICH SEGAL

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult. It shou...
ERICH FROMM

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which i...
ERICH FROMM

Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
ERICH FROMM

Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satis...
ERICH FROMM

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
ERICH FROMM

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be b...
ERICH FROMM

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
ERICH FROMM

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

Authority is not a quality one person has, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. ...
ERICH FROMM

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

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i...
ERICH FROMM

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

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process re...
ERICH FROMM

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...
ERICH FROMM

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular...
ERICH FROMM

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
ERICH FROMM

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most impo...
ERICH FROMM

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
ERICH FROMM

Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
ERICH FROMM

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the<...
ERICH FROMM The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest k...
ERICH FROMM By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ...
ERICH FROMM The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; th...
ERICH FROMM The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
ERICH FROMM We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or...
ERICH FROMM The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderfu...
ERICH GUTKIND There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction ...
ERICH FROMM Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright mornin...
ERICH FROMM Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the se...
ERICH FROMM Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education o...
ERICH FROMM We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sle...
ERICH FROMM Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of...
ERICH FROMM Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
ERICH FROMM The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense l...
ERICH FROMM To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which...
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ...
ERICH FROMM Men are born equal but they are also born different.
ERICH FROMM Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you...
ERICH FROMM Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought
ERICH FROMM Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew bef...
ERICH FROMM Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiv...
ERICH FROMM Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entit...
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and e...
ERICH FROMM To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despe...
ERICH FROMM The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their ...
ERICH FROMM There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh...
ERICH FROMM The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
ERICH FROMM Sometimes I amaze even myself.
ERICH SEGAL There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, whic...
ERICH FROMM Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you becaus...
ERICH FROMM The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel ma...
ERICH FROMM Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
ERICH FROMM The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense l...
ERICH FROMM Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either...
ERICH FROMM Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not underst...
ERICH FROMM Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most ...
ERICH FROMM Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be n...
ERICH FROMM If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a...
ERICH FROMM The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.
ERICH LEINSDORF As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
ERICH FROMM Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'
ERICH BERGEN The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...
ERICH FROMM Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the pri...
ERICH FROMM A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has...
ERICH FROMM The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
ERICH SEGAL The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissist...
ERICH FROMM If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what th...
ERICH FROMM Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
ERICH HONECKER We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put throu...
ERICH HOEBER The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young m...
ERICH AUERBACH Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love...
ERICH FROMM Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I lo...
ERICH FROMM That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the mir...
ERICH FROMM The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically...
ERICH FROMM Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
ERICH FROMM Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
ERICH FROMM Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the sep...
ERICH FROMM Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational p...
ERICH FROMM Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love yo...
ERICH FROMM Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
ERICH SEGAL True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checke...
ERICH SEGAL Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ex...
ERICH FROMM As we can.
ERICH FROMM The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...
ERICH FROMM The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
ERICH FROMM Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of chara...
ERICH FROMM While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achiev...
ERICH FROMM The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at ...
ERICH FROMM In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ...
ERICH HOEBER The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sad...
ERICH FROMM They've got an edit provision on there for the sake of editing when things are not accurate. I presu...
ERICH MISCHE There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERICH FROMM I'm not sure on the legal side of things, I'm not well versed in that, but I'd like to see something...
ERICH DUMBECK Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived lives
ERICH FROMM Faith makes all things possible.... love makes all things easy.
ERICH FROMM I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' ...
ERICH SEGAL Love, like death, changes everything.
ERICH FROMM There are 83 species of whales and dolphins (and porpoises) we know almost nothing about.
ERICH HOYT All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses...
ERICH FROMM Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you...
ERICH FROMM Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
ERICH FROMM It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the cr...
ERICH FROMM I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Mar...
ERICH BERGEN But nothing like what GM and Ford are going through. Long-term, I think Chrysler's prospects look in...
ERICH MERKLE It's a little bit of puffery, to offset the bad news that's been out there the last three or four mo...
ERICH MERKLE The Escalade is going to be pretty tough to beat. You're competing on performance. The real killer f...
ERICH MERKLE It certainly is a move in the right direction. (But) I still don't see it as a real competitor with ...
ERICH MERKLE They've packaged it just slightly different enough so that it's more of a utility vehicle -- a small...
ERICH MERKLE I'm not sure they can move away from Ford fast enough.
ERICH MERKLE What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth ce...
ERICH FROMM I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
ERICH SEGAL [They] glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival.
ERICH SEGAL Man always dies before he is fully born.
ERICH FROMM Do not love me because i love you, love me for loving me.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love yo...
ERICH FROMM Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines
ERICH FROMM Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when ...
ERICH FROMM Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is ...
ERICH FROMM By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ...
ERICH FROMM Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increa...
ERICH FROMM Someone has to make sure Delphi's parts are not interrupted.
ERICH MERKLE As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i...
ERICH FROMM This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
ERICH SEGAL When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johns...
ERICH LEINSDORF It's the 800-pound gorilla. No one seems able to stop them.
ERICH MERKLE The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact th...
ERICH FROMM We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent �...
ERICH FROMM What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
ERICH SEGAL There's a lot of things GM and Ford are still grappling with if they're going to adapt to these nich...
ERICH MERKLE In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more import...
ERICH FROMM There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is share...
ERICH FROMM The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we s...
ERICH FROMM Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It ...
ERICH FROMM They understand that there's some shortcomings. It says they're addressing them.
ERICH MERKLE One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
ERICH FROMM In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
ERICH FROMM The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most
ERICH FROMM The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able t...
ERICH FROMM In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
ERICH FROMM This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
ERICH SEGAL Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one...
ERICH FROMM Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle...
ERICH FROMM There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," wh...
ERICH FROMM Minnie Four-Eyes.
ERICH SEGAL ...namque...solebatis
meas esse aliquid putare nuqas
ERICH SEGAL Voljeti ne znači vječito ponavljati da ti je žao
ERICH SEGAL I didn't know you were related to Sewall Boat House too,' she said.

'Yeah. I come fro...
ERICH SEGAL I began to think about God. I mean, the notion of a Supreme Being existing somewhere began to creep ...
ERICH SEGAL Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme
-¡Jenny, estamos legalmente...
ERICH SEGAL I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said.
"Well," I replied, "it's certainl...
ERICH SEGAL But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
“Make me”, I replied.
ERICH SEGAL Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers hell out of me, having grown up ...
ERICH SEGAL I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had to<...
ERICH SEGAL Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?'<...
ERICH SEGAL What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always...
ERICH SEGAL There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.
ERICH SEGAL Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she wa...
ERICH SEGAL You don't know about falling off cliffs, Preppie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god...
ERICH SEGAL Now would you do me a favor?' From somewhere inside me came this devastating assault to make me cry....
ERICH SEGAL He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment.
"Which one is that?" I...
ERICH SEGAL What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Lis...
ERICH SEGAL He would not question Barretto's love, since to know Jenny is to love Jenny; it's a universal truth
ERICH SEGAL Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.
ERICH FROMM It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings pro...
ERICH FROMM I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by ...
ERICH BERGEN Der Autor (...) sieht, daß die Zeitgenossen, störrisch wie die Esel, rückwärts laufen, einem kla...
ERICH KäSTNER To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM

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