FastSaying

Was es ist

Es ist Unsinn
sagt die Vernunft
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe

Es ist Unglück
sagt die Berechnung
Es ist nichts als Schmerz
sagt die Angst
Es ist aussichtslos
sagt die Einsicht
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe

Es ist lächerlich
sagt der Stolz

Es ist leichtsinnig
sagt die Vorsicht
Es ist unmöglich
sagt die Erfahrung
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Liebe


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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