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

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About Erich Fromm

Portrait of Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (, German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈfʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of the...

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Rather than be confronted with an overwhelming proof of the limitations of our understanding, we accuse the dreams of not making sense.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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Be the chief but never the lord.

Imagination rules the world.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

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If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.

—John Alejandro King

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The last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way.

—Viktor Frankl

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