Act of faith fromm
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
James W. Fulbright
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White
With faith in your manhood and in your devotion to home, to county and to duty, I look for noble action on your part.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not towards one 'object' of love.
Erich Fromm
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich Fromm
In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm
Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.
Erich Fromm
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
Irving Babbitt
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
William Ames
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
Erich Fromm
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
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 outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.
Erich Fromm
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature.
Erich Fromm
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm
