Quote #76
Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived lives.
More from Erich Fromm
- Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.
- Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
- If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
- As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
- In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go…
- Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.