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Der Autor (...) sieht, daß die Zeitgenossen, störrisch wie die Esel, rückwärts laufen, einem klaffenden Abgrund entgegen, in dem Platz für sämtliche Völker Europas ist. Und so ruft er, wie eine Reihe Anderer vor ihm und außer ihm: Achtung, beim Absturz linke Hand am linken Griff!


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ERICH FROMM By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ...
ERICH FROMM Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increa...
ERICH FROMM Someone has to make sure Delphi's parts are not interrupted.
ERICH MERKLE As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i...
ERICH FROMM This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
ERICH SEGAL When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johns...
ERICH LEINSDORF It's the 800-pound gorilla. No one seems able to stop them.
ERICH MERKLE The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact th...
ERICH FROMM We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent �...
ERICH FROMM What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
ERICH SEGAL There's a lot of things GM and Ford are still grappling with if they're going to adapt to these nich...
ERICH MERKLE In spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more import...
ERICH FROMM There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is share...
ERICH FROMM The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we s...
ERICH FROMM Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It ...
ERICH FROMM They understand that there's some shortcomings. It says they're addressing them.
ERICH MERKLE One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
ERICH FROMM In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
ERICH FROMM The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most
ERICH FROMM The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able t...
ERICH FROMM In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
ERICH FROMM This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
ERICH SEGAL Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one...
ERICH FROMM Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle...
ERICH FROMM There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," wh...
ERICH FROMM Min­nie Four-Eyes.
ERICH SEGAL ...namque...solebatis
meas esse aliquid putare nuqas
ERICH SEGAL Voljeti ne znači vječito ponavljati da ti je žao
ERICH SEGAL I didn't know you were re­lated to Se­wall Boat House too,' she said.

'Yeah. I come fro...
ERICH SEGAL I began to think about God. I mean, the notion of a Supreme Being existing somewhere began to creep ...
ERICH SEGAL Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme
-¡Jenny, estamos legalmente...
ERICH SEGAL I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said.
"Well," I replied, "it's certainl...
ERICH SEGAL But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
“Make me”, I replied.
ERICH SEGAL Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers hell out of me, having grown up ...
ERICH SEGAL I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had to<...
ERICH SEGAL Jenny, if you're so con­vinced I'm a loser, why did you bull­doze me into buy­ing you cof­fee?'<...
ERICH SEGAL What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always...
ERICH SEGAL There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.
ERICH SEGAL Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she wa...
ERICH SEGAL You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­...
ERICH SEGAL Now would you do me a favor?' From somewhere inside me came this devastating assault to make me cry....
ERICH SEGAL He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment.
"Which one is that?" I...
ERICH SEGAL What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Lis...
ERICH SEGAL He would not question Barretto's love, since to know Jenny is to love Jenny; it's a universal truth
ERICH SEGAL Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.
ERICH FROMM It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings pro...
ERICH FROMM I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by ...
ERICH BERGEN To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
ERICH FROMM The mood is shit. Everybody's feeling down because of yesterday, it was crazy.
ERICH WAGNER As a coach he won't have talked just about the weather.
ERICH WAGNER Mayer was here privately as a spectator and he visited the boys. Of course, they will have talked a ...
ERICH WAGNER