Erich Fromm Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

  Erich Fromm

  Animal, Men, Identity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.70, Open Road Media

• Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

  Erich Fromm

  Faith, Real, Pregnancy

• Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

  Erich Fromm

  Practice, Feelings, Society

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.65, Open Road Media

• Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one's awareness, one's reason, one's capacity to love to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Capacity To Love, Two

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.21, Open Road Media

• Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Creative, Awareness

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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