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Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom Quotes: Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
         

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.


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Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.



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the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not that of the satisfaction or frustration of this or that instinctual need per se



To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.

To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.



They were more free, but they were more alone.

They were more free, but they were more alone.



Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.

Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.



Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.



Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.



The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.

The doubt itself will not disappear as long as man does not overcome his isolation and as long as his place in the world has not become a meaningful one in terms of his human needs.





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