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Erich Fromm
(23 Mar 1900 - 18 Mar 1980)
German-American psychologist.
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Science Quotes by Erich Fromm (6 quotes)
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
— Erich Fromm
Quoted in David Stokes, Nicholas Wilson and Martha Mador, Entrepreneurship (2009), 190 without further citation. If you know the primary source, please contact Webmaster.
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
— Erich Fromm
In Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (1947), 197.
Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I,” that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
— Erich Fromm
In The Sane Society (1955), 60.
Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
— Erich Fromm
In The Sane Society (1955), 64.
The capacity to be puzzled is … the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
— Erich Fromm
In 'The Creative Attitude,' Creativity and Its Cultivation edited by Harold H. Anderson (1959).
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.
— Erich Fromm
In The Sane Society (1955), 87.
See also:
- 23 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Fromm's birth.
- The Sane Society, by Erich Fromm. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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