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I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.


Erich Segal

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ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love yo...
ERICH FROMM Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ex...
ERICH FROMM As we can.
ERICH FROMM The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...
ERICH FROMM The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
ERICH FROMM Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of chara...
ERICH FROMM While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achiev...
ERICH FROMM The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at ...
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