Erich Fromm Quotes About Boredom

Quotes about: Boredom

• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

  Erich Fromm

  Future, Past, Men

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

• Man is the only animal that can be bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

• Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

  Erich Fromm

  Loneliness, Boredom, Greed

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.97, A&C Black

• I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Bores You, Boredom

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Boredom, Paralysis

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

• Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Psychics

• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

  Erich Fromm

  Evil, Boredom, Painful

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

• One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

  Erich Fromm

  Meaningful, Men, Knowing

  Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.282, Routledge

• This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Reality, Men

  Source: www.scribd.com

• Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.

  Erich Fromm

  Boredom, Recognition, Found

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.400, Open Road Media

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