Erich Fromm's Quote - We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is

Quote by Erich Fromm

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. – Erich Fromm

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. – Erich Fromm

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Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. – Paul Eldridge

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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. – Mahatma Gandhi

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. – Vernon Howard

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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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