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We are what we do.

We are what we do.
– Erich Fromm

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  1. For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away. – Erich Fromm
  2. Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. – Erich Fromm
  3. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. – Erich Fromm
  4. That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. – Erich Fromm
  5. Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine. – Erich Fromm
  6. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm
  7. Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold. – Erich Fromm
  8. What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions. – Erich Fromm
  9. People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love – or to be loved by – is difficult. – Erich Fromm
  10. The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.. – Erich Fromm
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  12. To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death. – Erich Fromm
  13. They were more free, but they were more alone. – Erich Fromm
  14. A society whose members are helpless need idols. – Erich Fromm
  15. The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life. – Erich Fromm
  16. They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity. – Erich Fromm
  17. The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life. – Erich Fromm
  18. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm
  19. Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. – Erich Fromm
  20. The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things. – Erich Fromm
  21. The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness. – Erich Fromm
  22. Love is a power which produces love. – Erich Fromm
  23. Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown. – Erich Fromm
  24. Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity. – Erich Fromm
  25. Love should not be polluted with friendship. – Erich Maria Remarque
  26. Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades – words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. – Erich Maria Remarque
  27. We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad. – Erich Maria Remarque
  28. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces. – Erich Maria Remarque
  29. And be very careful at the front, Paul.-Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! – Erich Maria Remarque
  30. our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life – Erich Maria Remarque
  31. If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a man’s thumb-in their eyes! – Erich Maria Remarque
  32. We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out. – Erich Maria Remarque
  33. Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;-”it affects me as though it were my mother. – Erich Maria Remarque
  34. The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days. – Erich Maria Remarque
  35. What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? – Erich Segal
  36. One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms-” never what one left. – Erich Maria Remarque
  37. You can deceive yourself with truth too. That’s an even more dangerous dream. – Erich Maria Remarque
  38. To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There’s much too little forgetting. – Erich Maria Remarque
  39. Mockery ends where understanding begins. – Erich von Dniken
  40. …and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die. – Erich Maria Remarque

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